Changes in speech on the sound, grammatical, textual and interactive levels (articula- tion of speech sounds, pronunciation of words, volume and pitch of voice; amount and function of pauses, intonation; simplification of grammatical structures, ellipses, correc- tions (rectifications), parentheses, loss of thematic linę, etc.) were examined on the col- lection of taped dialogues taken at home and in an old people’s home.