Linguistic impairments in subjects with dementia of the alzheimer's type: status of the issue
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- José Luis Pérez Mantero
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Linguistic abilities are impaired in subjects with
dementia of the Alzheimer’s type. Some studies have been carried out in order to describe the
nature of this deficit. The results of these studies have shown that the lexical-semantic and
pragmatic components are much more damaged than phonetical, phonological and
morphosyntactical aspects of language. Our intention is to elaborate a brief status of the
issue which permits us to have a global outlook of the communicative deterioration process. It is also emphasized the importance of linguistic analysis when it comes to diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease since discourse changes can be found in the preclinical stage of
dementia. Finally, we propose the creation of conversational protocols that will help subjects with dementia of Alzheimer’s type and their key conversational partners to preserve good communicative interactions for as long as possible.
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