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Peer reviewedEllis, Donald G. – Communication Research, 1996
Reports on linguistic features and patterns of coherence in mild and advanced levels of discourse of Alzheimer's patients. Argues and demonstrates that, as the disease progresses, patients' discourse becomes "pregrammatical"--vocabulary-driven and reliant on meaning-based discourse features rather than grammatically based features.…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Coherence, Communication Research, Language Patterns
