Background: Connected speech (CS) deterioration appears early in the progression to
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and in mild cognitive impairment (MCI). As such, CS assessment …

Background: Although memory impairment is the main symptom of Alzheimer's disease
(AD), language impairment can be an important marker. Relatively few studies of language …

This article examines how a man able to speak only three words because of a severe stroke
is nonetheless able to act as a competent speaker, indeed position himself as the teller of a …

Objective: To perform a preliminary evaluation of a questionnaire designed to assess
functional outcomes of treatment for aphasia. Methods: The Functional Outcome …

Interdisciplinary scholarship over the past three decades has aimed to characterize how the
biological, social, and psychological changes that people identify as aging influence the way …

Background: There is a need for fast, accessible, low-cost, and accurate diagnostic methods
for early detection of cognitive decline. Dementia diagnoses are usually made years after …

Lexical and acoustic markers in spoken language can be used to detect mild cognitive
impairment (MCI), a condition which is often a precursor to dementia and frequently causes …

The use of “pragmatic repetition,” the iteration of one's own speech or the speech of a co-
participant, while known to occur in conversation, has been overlooked in the language …

Oswald and Linda have been married for almost fifty years and are, at the time of the
interview, around seventy years old. The interview is part of a larger ongoing research …

Analyses of elicited spoken discourse can identify mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and
Alzheimer's dementia (AD). Topic management, one feature of discourse defined as acts …