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Light verb production in healthy ageing and dementia.

Background: Light verbs are highly frequent and semantically impoverished words. It is currently not known whether light verb production in discourse tasks differs by age or for people with dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT). Aims: The purpose of the current study was two‐fold: (1) to determine...

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Published in:International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) Vol. 57; no. 4; pp. 796 - 808
Main Authors: Kintz, Stephen, Wright, Heather Harris
Format: Article
Published: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Jul2022
Subjects:
Cognition disorders
Active aging
Alzheimer's disease
Age distribution
Speech evaluation
Task performance
Dementia patients
Discourse analysis
Descriptive statistics
Research funding
Educational attainment
Evaluation
Old age
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