ArticleBrain sciences2022
Changes in Pronoun Use a Decade before Clinical Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Dementia-Linguistic Contexts Suggest Problems in Perspective-Taking.
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- Artificial intelligence-driven natural language processing for identifying linguistic patterns in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment: A study of lexical, syntactic, and cohesive features of speech through picture description tasks.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2025Article
- Language abnormalities in Alzheimer's disease indicate reduced informativeness.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2024Article
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Abstract
The use of pronouns has been shown to change pathologically in the early phases of Alzheimer's Dementia (AD). So far, the findings have been of a quantitative nature. Little is known, however, about the developmental path of the change, its onset, the domains in which it initially occurs, and if and how it spreads to other linguistic domains. The present study investigates pronoun use in six speakers of German a decade before they were clinically diagnosed with AD (LAD) and six biographically matched healthy controls (CTR). The data originate from monologic spoken language elicited by semi-spontaneous biographical interviews. Investigation of nine pronoun types revealed group differences in the use of three pronoun types: D-pronouns-a specific pronoun type of German for reference to persons and objects; the impersonal pronoun
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