Automated analysis of written language in the three variants of primary progressive aphasia.

ABSTRACT: Despite the important role of written language in everyday life, abnormalities in functional written communication have been sparsely investigated in primary progressive aphasia. Prior studies have analysed written language separately in each of the three variants of primary progressive aphasia-but have rarely compared them to each other or to spoken language. Manual analysis of written language can be a time-consuming process. We therefore developed a program that quantifies content units and total units in written or transcribed language samples. We analysed written and spoken descriptions of the Western Aphasia Battery picnic scene, based on a predefined content unit corpus. We calculated the ratio of content units to units as a measure of content density. Our cohort included 115 partic

SUBMITTER: Josephy-Hernandez S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10396070 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature