Morphology in picture descriptions provided by persons with Alzheimer's disease

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 341-352

  Kavé, Gitit ^a   Levy, Yonata ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Hebrew; Morphology; Spontaneous speech

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHOTOGRAPHY; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LINGUISTICS; MALE;

EID: 0037390954     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2003/027)     Document Type: Article

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