Main Concepts for Three Different Discourse Tasks in a Large Non-Clinical Sample.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Semi-spontaneous speech production tasks are commonly elicited to assess discourse ability. When knowledge of a topic, story, or event is shared, it is possible to gauge the informativeness of discourse by evaluating how accurately and completely an individual produces the concepts considered to be essential to the shared topic. This analysis, main concept analysis (MCA), quantifies the degree to which speakers are able to communicate the overall gist of an event. Though MCA is an easy to perform, informative, and reliable measure of discourse adequacy, its widespread adoption depends on the development of standardization and normative reference. Given the large collection of control discourse transcripts available on the AphasiaBank database, it is possible to generate

SUBMITTER: Richardson JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11864783 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature