Alzheimer Talk, Text and Context

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Alzheimer Talk, Text and Context is written by B. Davis and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0230502024 (ISBN 10) and 9780230502024 (ISBN 13).

The contributors to this volume reference a shared, longitudinal corpus of spontaneous conversation elicited in natural settings from speakers with moderate to late moderate Alzheimer's Disease, utilizing other collections as appropriate, to analyze conversation, discourse and written text by and about Alzheimer's speech. Cross-disciplinary contributions from the USA, Canada, New Zealand and Germany, representing linguistics, gerontology, geriatric nursing, computer science, and communications disorders report on empirically-based investigations of social and pragmatic language competencies and strategies retained by AD patients which could ground communication enhancements or interventions.