Comparison of verbal fluency in monolingual and bilingual elderly in Iran
| Autor: | Hosein Rezaei, Ehsan Jasemi, Negin Moradi, Masoume Hosseini, Majid Soltani |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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050103 clinical psychology Aging Arabic Multilingualism Iran Neuropsychological Tests Fluency Cognition Memory Task Performance and Analysis Developmental and Educational Psychology Verbal fluency test Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Neuroscience of multilingualism Persian Aged Language Tests Psycholinguistics 05 social sciences Semantic fluency language.human_language Semantics Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology language Female Psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Applied neuropsychology. Adult. 28(1) |
| ISSN: | 2327-9109 |
| Popis: | Verbal fluency is one of the first and most important cognitive functions that deteriorate during the aging process. Verbal fluency is defined as the skill and speed of finding words and finding semantic and phonetic connections between words. One of the most important factors in verbal fluency is bilingualism. Therefore, the current study aimed to investigate the effect of bilingualism on the verbal fluency of the elderly in Iran. A total of 12 normal elderly bilingual (Arabic-Persian) speakers and 12 normal elderly monolingual (Persian) speakers participated in this comparative-analytical study. To assess verbal fluency, two semantic and phonetic fluency tasks were used. Data were analyzed using the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney tests. The results obtained from the comparison of phonetic fluency and semantic fluency of native languages of the two groups showed a better performance of monolingual participants in semantic fluency and phonetic fluency tasks in Persian language compared to the Arabic bilingual elderly. No difference was observed in verbal fluency of Persian monolinguals and bilinguals. However, in bilingual elderly participants, faster retrieval was observed in Persian language than in Arabic. This can be considered in assessment and treatment measures for Arabic-Persian bilinguals. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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