Conference, Workshop, or ColloquiumInfoling 2.28 (2021)

The International Online Workshop on Language in Healthy and Pathological Aging aims at gathering scholars working on any aspect of speech and language change, impairment or loss in ages speakers of any neurocognitive profile.

Its topics of interest are (but not limited to):

- language change in healthy elderly;

- language impairment in pathological elderly, with special focus on dementia;

- neurobiological characterization of language change in aging;

- cognitive and psycholinguistics aspects of language change in aging

- communicative strategies with the elderly and elderspeak;

- language in the elderly and language evolution;

- cross-linguistic and cross-cultural aging.

The working language of the Workshop is English.

Participation with and without presentation is free of charge.

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Heather Harris Wright (Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, Program Coordinator of the Rehabilitation Sciences PhD Program in the College of Allied Health Sciences, Associate Dean for Research for the College of Allied Health Sciences, and interim Associate Dean for the College of Nursing at East Carolina University)

Lise Abrams (Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Pomona College)

Alexandra König (Memory Clinic and Research Center, University Hospital in Nice; Cobtek lab, University Côte d’azur & French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA), Sophia Antipolis)

Thomas H. Bak (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, the University of Edinburgh)

Sonal Chitnis, Bharati Vidyapeeth University

Chris Code, University of Exeter

Faustino Diéguez Vide, University of Barcelona

Milagros Fernández Pérez, University of Santiago de Compostela

Maite Fernández Urquiza, University of Oviedo

Juan José García Meilán, University of Salamanca

Lina Grasso, Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina

Kleanthes Grohmann, University of Cyprus

Wolfram Hinzen, University of Barcelona

Ildiko Hoffmann, University of Szeged

Shohei Kato, Nagoya Institute of Technology

Evelina Leivada, University Rovira i Virgili

Giovanna Mapelli, University of Milan

Silvia Martínez Ferreiro, University Toulouse Jean-Jaurès

Francisco Martínez-Sánchez, University of Murcia

Prof. Prasannanshu, New Delhi Law University

Mónica Salazar Villanea, University of Costa Rica

Miquel Serra Raventos, University of Barcelona

Carmen Varo, University of Cádiz

Antonio Benítez-Burraco, University of Seville

Olga Ivanova, University of Salamanca