Some Factors Affecting Vocabulary Size in Later Maturity: Age, Education, and Length of Institutionalization

This paper was presented at the first annual scientific meeting of the gerontological society, inc. on invitation of the program committee as a part of a symposium on the psychologic and sociologic aspects of aging. taking into consideration age, education, length of 1nstitutionalization, sex, auditory and visual defects, and native language, this investigation showed no relation between vocabulary size and either length of institutionalization or age.