Table of Contents

1. Cognition, language, and aging: An introduction (by Henderson, Amy); 2. The Tip-of-the-Tongue phenomenon: Who, what, and why (by Abrams, Lise); 3. Age-related effects on language production: A combined psycholinguistic and neurocognitive perspective (by Marini, Andrea); 4. Aging effects on discourse production (by Kintz, Stephen); 5. Language comprehension in aging (by DeDe, Gayle); 6. The role of cognition on age-related changes in language, memory, and mental models (by Copeland, David E.); 7. Reading in normally aging adults (by Gordon, Peter C.); 8. Cognitive and linguistic processes among oldest old persons: Heterogeneity, methodological challenges, and relevance of psychosocial resources (by Margrett, Jennifer A.); 9. Sociolinguistics, language, and aging (by Davis, Boyd); 10. Index