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Laine, Matti, Minna Laakso, Elina Vuorinen and Juha Rinne. 1998. Coherence and information of discourse in two dementia types. In Paradis, Michel. Pragmatics in Neurogenic Communication Disorders. (International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics). Elsevier. pp. 79–87.

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Article in book

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English

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Laine, Matti, Minna Laakso, Elina Vuorinen and Juha Rinne. 1998. Coherence and informativeness of discourse in two dementia types.

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Impaired coherence and reduced informativeness of discourse are found in both patient groups. It is argued that the variable of global coherence is related to conceptual impairment.