The uses of nouns and deixis in discourse production in Alzheimer's disease

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  March, Evrim Gocer ^a   Wales, Roger ^b   Pattison, Pip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alzheimer; Anaphora; Context; Deixis; Dementia; Discourse; Elderly; Language; Noun; Reference use

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINEAR SYSTEM; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33750211809     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2006.01.001     Document Type: Article

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