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P3‐106: Spontaneous speech rate in patients with mild cognitive impairment and early stage Alzheimer's disease
Author(s) -
Han Seol-Heui,
Kim Minyoung,
Kim Sook Hui,
Kang Hyun Seok
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1016/j.jalz.2010.05.1603
Subject(s) - audiology , articulation (sociology) , psychology , dysarthria , population , cognitive impairment , conversation , cognition , medicine , psychiatry , communication , environmental health , politics , political science , law
Abelson, 1977) and storytelling. We choose a well-known story (Little Red Riding Hood) and both groups were asked to tell it without visual support. The analysis of the structural components was made using the model of story schema proposed by Stein and Glenn (1979), with the modifications of Ska and Guénard (1993). Pragmatic components of the discourse were also analyzed. ADP were stratified according the GDS status in 2 groups, GDS III/IV (ADP1) and GDS V/VI (ADP2). Results: The comparison of the productions, considering the macro and microstructure, between ADP and CS showed: 1) Marked reduction in the number of components of the narrative schema; 2) Reduced explicit and implicit information and increased of irrelevant information, 3) Semantic cohesion disruption, 4) Discourse coherence alterations 5) Repetitions and reformulations were more frequent among patients in both tasks. The earliest change is the loss of temporal coherence leading to the lost of referential coherence with disease progression. Conclusions: Narrative discourse desintegration provide a model of studying language in Alzheimer’s disease patients