Background People with schizophrenia (SZ) often present with theory of mind (ToM) deficits
and with speech production deficits. While a link has been established between ToM …

Several studies have shown that people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) tend to use more
pronouns than healthy aged adults when referring to entities during discourse. This …

The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the current knowledge of prosody competence in
high-functioning individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) by investigating the …

The present study focuses on referential choices made by healthy aged adults during
narrative discourse, and their relationship with cognitive and socio-cognitive abilities …

When referring to an object or person, speakers select a referring expression along with an
appropriate prosody. This choice is a highly context-dependent, listener-oriented aspect of …

This study aims to advance our understanding of the nature and source (s) of individual
differences in pragmatic language behavior over the adult lifespan. Across four story …

People with schizophrenia present with language production impairments, yet very few
studies examine language production in the context of collaborative, verbal interaction tasks …

Past research shows that when a discourse referent is mentioned repeatedly, it is usually
introduced with a full noun phrase and maintained with a reduced form such as a pronoun …

A common-held belief, based on half a century of research, is that the domain of language
remains relatively stable over the adult lifespan. However, emerging research in one …

This corpus-based approach to coreference chains analyzes recurrences in the patterns of
chains, providing new insights into conventions or preferences in the forms of referential …