Examining pauses in alzheimer's discourse

American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 141-154

  Davis, Boyd H ^a   MacLagan, Margaret ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Filled pause; Formulaic phrase; Narrative component; Pause; Situation bound utterance (SBU); Syntactic complexity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CONVERSATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; PLANNING; REVIEW; SPEECH; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 65249121866     PISSN: 15333175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1533317508328138     Document Type: Review

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