Age-related effects on speech production: A review

Mortensen, Linda; Meyer, Antje S.; Humphreys, Glyn W.

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Age-related effects on speech production: A review

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Mortensen, Linda, Meyer, Antje S., Humphreys, Glyn W.·2006·Language and Cognitive Processes

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In discourse, older adults tend to be more verbose and more disfluent than young adults, especially when the task is difficult and when it places few constraints on the content of the utterance. This may be due to (a) language-specific deficits in planning the content and syntactic structure of utterances or in selecting and retrieving words from the mental lexicon, (b) a general deficit in inhibiting irrelevant information, or (c) the selection of a specific speech style. The possibility that older adults have a deficit in lexical retrieval is supported by the results of picture naming studies, in which older adults have been found to name objects less accurately and more slowly than young adults, and by the results of definition naming studies, in which older adults have been found to experience more tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) states than young adults. The available evidence suggests that these age differences are largely due to weakening of the connections linking word lemmas to phonological word forms, though adults above 70 years of age may have an additional deficit in lemma selection.

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Authors: Mortensen, L., Meyer, A. S., & Humphreys, G. W.
Affiliations: University of Birmingham (GB)
ORCID: Meyer, Antje S.
Venue: Language and Cognitive Processes
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Published: 2006-01
Volume: 21
Issue: 1-3
Pages: 238-290
ISSN: 0169-0965 (ISSN-L)
1464-0732
DOI: 10.1080/01690960444000278
OpenAlex: W2088943238
Cited by: 170
References: 131
Citations by year: 2026: 13 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 10
FWCI: 0.82
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
hdl.handle.net
Licence: other-oa
Locations: Language and Cognitive Processes (publishedVersion)
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University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) (submittedVersion)
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Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
Keywords: aging, speech production, older adults, disfluency, verbosity, word retrieval, picture naming, tip-of-the-tongue, inhibitory control, speech style, utterance planning

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