Thematic roles in Alzheimer's disease: Hierarchy violations in psychological predicates

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 167-186

  Manouilidou, Christina ^a   de Almeida, Roberto G ^a   Schwartz, George ^b   Nair, N P V ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Psychological verbs; Sentence processing; Thematic hierarchy; Thematic roles

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEMATIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 58149352304     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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