Preserved morphological decomposition in persons with Alzheimer's disease

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 835-847

  Kavé, Gitit ^a,b   Levy, Yonata ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Hebrew; Language; Morphology; Priming

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MORPHOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SEMANTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 4344691359     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2004/062)     Document Type: Article

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