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Alzheimer’s Speakers and Two Languages

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The language of people who suffer from Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has been a field of research in medicine and psychology for a long time. A major focus of this research has been to describe specific language-related deficiencies that can help identify people with AD in contrast to people with only slightly different symptoms. The description of deficiencies has been the basis for research that links language-related deficiencies to stages of an on-going process of psychopathological deterioration and ultimately to specific lesions in the brains of AD patients (cf. Cummings, 1992; Cummings et al. 1985; Heindel et al. 1997; Kempler 1991).

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Nold, G.M.J. (2005). Alzheimer’s Speakers and Two Languages. In: Davis, B.H. (eds) Alzheimer Talk, Text and Context. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230502024_6

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