Language Use in Later Life

Research Workshop of Université catholique de Louvain and Freie Universität Berlin from December 7 to 9, 2015. How does language use change with increasing age? What can psychologists learn from linguists and vice versa? And how can the findings of linguistic research be useful for health care workers, care givers, relatives, and senior citizens themselves? These and other issues will be addressed by the participants of a research workshop that will take place from December 7 to 9, 2015, at Universität Louvain (UCL). The workshop is being organized jointly by Dr. Catherine T. Bolly (Universität zu Köln / UCL) and Annette Gerstenberg (Freie Universität Berlin), the founders of the CLARe (Corpora for Language and Aging Research) network. The meeting is open to the public, and admission is free. Annette Gerstenberg is available for's on the workshop topic "Language Use in Later Life": Tel. Email: annette.gerstenberg [a] fu-berlin (p) de Research on the connection between language and age is being done in various fields, but the involved subdisciplines are hardly interlinked, explains Annette Gerstenberg, a professor of Romance linguistics at Freie Universität. The workshop thus aims to bring together leading scholars in the various fields.