Abstract
This study investigated whether presbycusis, the decline in hearing and listening abilities associated with aging, is related to different strategies of managing participation in conversation. Transcribed conversations from four age groups of speakers, namely, young, middle aged, young elderly and old elderly, were coded for the use of various types of aligning actions. Results indicated that a decline in peripheral speech discrimination is linearly associated with decreased usage of confirmations/backchannels. The overall multivariate pattern of three aligning actions was curvilinearly predicted by age. Speakers increase their use of aligning actions in middle age and then after 60 years of age start progressively decreasing their use of aligning actions into old age. The elderly age groups exhibited less variability in their speech discrimination and listening scores than the younger age groups, but were more variable in their use of different aligning actions.
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