Publications

Keijzer, M. (in prep). Language reversion in elderly immigrants. Applied Linguistics.
Keijzer, M., & Kootstra, G-J (in prep). The relation between code-switching and inhibitory control in Dutch-English elderly bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.
Boon, N.A., Keijzer, M., & de Rooij, S. (submitted). Healthy aging and lexical retrieval: Geriatric patients‘ performance on verbal fluency tests. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience.

Nijmeijer, S., van Tol, M.J., Aleman, A., & Keijzer, M. (2021). Foreign Language Learning as Cognitive Training to Prevent Old Age Disorders? Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial of Language Training vs. Musical Training and Social Interaction in Elderly With Subjective Cognitive Decline. Front. Aging Neurosci, 13:550180

Brouwer, J., van den Berg, F., Knooihuizen, R., Loerts, H., & Keijzer, M. (2020). Exploring language learning as a potential tool against cognitive impairment in late-life depression: two meta-analyses and suggestions for further research. Behavioral Sciences 10(9), 132.
van der Ploeg, M., Keijzer, M., & Lowie, W. (in press). Methodological concerns and their solutions in third-age language learning studies. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics.

Keijzer, M. & de Bot, K. (2019). Unlearning and relearning of languages from childhood to late adulthood. In: Ortega, L. & de Houwer, A. (Eds.), Handbook of Bilingualism (pp. 267-285). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Pot, A., Porkert, J., & Keijzer, M. (2019). The Bidirectional in Bilingual: Cognitive, Social and Linguistic Effects of and on Third-Age Language Learning. Behavioral Sciences, 9(9).

Pot, A., Keijzer, M., & de Bot, K. (2018). Intensity of multilingual language use predicts cognitive performance of in some multilingual older adults. Brain Sciences, 8(5), 92.
Pot, A., Keijzer, M. & de Bot, K. (2018). The language barrier in migrant aging. International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education.
Pot, A., Keijzer, M. & de Bot, K. (2018). Do low L2 abilities impede healthy aging for migrant older adults in the Netherlands. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics, 7(1), 109-120.
Pot, A., Keijzer, M. & de Bot, K. (2018). De taalbarrière bij oudere Turkse vrouwen nader onderzocht. Tijdschrift voor Gerontologie en Geriatrie, 49(6), 274-282.

Keijzer, M. & Schmid, M.S. (2017). Individual differences in cognitive control advantages of elderly late Dutch-English bilinguals. In Bialystok, E., & Sullivan, M. (Eds.), Bilingualism and Aging (pp.77-98). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Pot, A., Keijzer, M., & de Bot, K. (2017). Enhancing language awareness in migrants‘ third age to promote wellbeing. In: Gabryś-Barker, D. (Ed.), Third Age Learners of Foreign Lanugages. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Keijzer, M. & Schmid, M.S. (2016). Individual differences in cognitive control advantages of elderly late Dutch-English bilinguals. In Aging and Bilingualism. Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 6(1/2), Edited by Ellen Bialystok and Margot D. Sullivan. (pp. 64–85).

Keijzer, M.C.J. (2013). Working memory capacity, inhibitory control and the role of L2 proficiency in aging L1 Dutch-English speakers of near-native L2 English. Brain Sciences (Special Issue: Brain & Language), 3, 1261-1281.

Keijzer, M.C.J. (2010). The regression hypothesis as a theoretical framework for first language attrition. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 13(1), 9-18.

Schmid, M.S. & Keijzer, M.C.J. (2009). First language attrition and reversion among older migrants. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2009(200), 83-101.

Keijzer, M.C.J. (2007). Last in First out? An investigation of the regression hypothesis in Dutch emigrants in Anglophone Canada. Utrecht: LOT dissertation series no. 163.
Köpke, B., Schmid, M.S., Keijzer, M. & Dostert, S. (Eds.) (2007). Language Attrition: Theoretical perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Schmid, M.S., Köpke, B., Keijzer, M.C.J. & Weilemar, L. (Eds.) (2004). First Language Attrition: Interdisciplinary perspectives on methodological issues. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Keijzer, M.C.J. (2004). First language attrition: A cross-linguistic investigation of Jakobson’s regression hypothesis. International Journal of Bilingualism, 8(3), 398-394.