Longitudinal detection of dementia through lexical and syntactic changes in writing: a case study of three British novelists

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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アガサ・クリスティ等、3人の小説家の文章の、年齢を経るにつれた語彙的構文的変化を分析。アルツハイマーが進行するにつれて表現の繰り返し等の語彙的変化が顕著。n=3の研究ではあるが……。

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興味深い研究。アルツハイマー患者であったIris Murdochの晩年の著作を分析すると、構文も語彙もそれ以前の作品に比べて単純に。アガサ・クリスティー晩年の作品にもその傾向が。