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Article published In: Aging and Bilingualism
Edited by Ellen Bialystok and Margot D. Sullivan
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:1/2] 2016
► pp. 9–42

Article

How aging and bilingualism influence language processing

Theoretical and neural models

 | California State Polytechnic University Pomona
 | Penn State University
Published online: 25 January 2016
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.14029.ros
Abstract
Healthy non-pathological aging is characterized by cognitive and neural decline, and although language is one of the more stable areas of cognition, older adults often show deficits in language production, showing word finding failures, increased slips of the tongue, and increased pauses in speech. Overall, research on language comprehension in older healthy adults show that it is more preserved than language production. Bilingualism has been shown to confer a great deal of neuroplasticity across the life span, including a number of cognitive benefits especially in executive functions such as cognitive control. Many models of bilingual language processing have been proposed to explain bilingual language processing. However, the question remains open of how such models might be modulated by age-related changes in language. Here, we discuss how current models of language processing in non-pathological aging, and models of bilingual language processing can be integrated to provide new research directions.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Language processing in healthy aging
  • 3.Bilingual language processing
  • 4.Connecting models of bilingual language processing and language processing in healthy aging
  • 5.Merging bilingualism into aging: future research directions
  • Notes
  • References
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