Lexical diversity for adults with and without aphasia across discourse elicitation tasks

Aphasiology

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1414-1430

  Fergadiotis, Gerasimos ^a   Wright, Heather Harris ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational linguistics; Discourse; Productive vocabulary

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; STORYTELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84855489422     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: 14645041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2011.603898     Document Type: Article

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