Heather Harris Wright

List of John Benjamins publications in which Heather Harris Wright is involved.

Title

Cognition, Language and Aging

Edited by Heather Harris Wright

Age-related changes in cognitive and language functions have been extensively researched over the past half-century. The older adult represents a unique population for studying cognition and language because of the many challenges that are presented with investigating this population, including… read more

[Not in series, 200] 2016. viii, 248 pp. | open access

Articles

Henderson, Amy and Heather Harris Wright 2016 Cognition, language, and aging: An introduction Cognition, Language and Aging, Wright, Heather Harris (ed.), pp. 1–11 | Article

Kintz, Stephen, Gerasimos Fergadiotis and Heather Harris Wright 2016 Aging effects on discourse production Cognition, Language and Aging, Wright, Heather Harris (ed.), pp. 81–106 | Article

Discourse is defined as any language “beyond the boundaries of isolated sentences” (Ultowska & Olness, 2004, p. 300), and it allows people to do things together; tease each other, build things, share feelings, and make plans for the future. Yet discourse requires more than simply generating a… read more