Lexical Substitution and Paraphasia in Advanced Dementia of the Alzheimer Type

The paper presents the case study of lexical selection in Alzheimer-type dementia. Lexical substitutions in poem recitation and conversations of a Russian speaker, who suffered Alzheimer-type dementia, were analyzed on the background of the lexical retrieval and slip-of-the-tongue phenomena. The cla...

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Main Authors: Ovchinnikova Irina, Pavlova Anna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2017-12-01
Series:Psychology of Language and Communication
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/plc-2017-0015