1 Introduction The research we describe in this article has two complementary goals. First, we want to determine whether linguistic markers of Alzheimer's disease can be detected in a diachronic analysis of aspects of an individual's writing. Our subjects for this are novelists for whom we have a large, lifelong body of work. Second, with regard to the individual authors who serve as subjects, we
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