Oral language and alzheimer's disease: A reduction in syntactic complexity

Transcripts of interviews with 117 adults undergoing examination for possible Alzheimer's disease were analyzed. the length, fluency, semantic content, and syntactic complexity of the transcripts varied with the severity of dementia. Although there was a marked increase in the production of sen...

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Published in:Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 1994-12, Vol.1 (4), p.271-281
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