Word-finding pauses in primary progressive aphasia (PPA): Effects of lexical category

Mack, Jennifer and Meltzer-Asscher, Aya and Dove, Sarah and Weintraub, Sandra and Mesulam, Marsel and Thompson, Cynthia K. (2013) Word-finding pauses in primary progressive aphasia (PPA): Effects of lexical category. [Clinical Aphasiology Paper]

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Abstract

Word-finding pauses are common in logopenic primary progressive aphasia (PPA-L). However, no previous research investigated the distribution of word-finding pauses in PPA or their specificity to PPA-L. We coded pauses preceding nouns and verbs in narrative speech samples from participants with PPA-L, agrammatic (PPA-G) and semantic PPA (PPA-S), and controls, hypothesizing that frequent word-finding pauses, if present, should match previously-observed lexical category deficits (noun deficits in PPA-L and PPA-S; verb deficits in PPA-G).The PPA-L group paused more frequently before nouns than verbs, whereas no other group exhibited lexical category effects, suggesting that frequent word-finding pauses are specific to PPA-L.

Item Type: Clinical Aphasiology Paper
Depositing User: OSCP Staff 1
Date Deposited: 29 Aug 2013
Last Modified: 31 Oct 2016 15:13
Conference: Clinical Aphasiology Conference > Clinical Aphasiology Conference (2013 : 43rd : Tucson, AZ : May 28-June 2, 2013)
URI: http://aphasiology.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2512

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