Role and Reference Grammar Applied to Alzheimer’s Disease: A Corpus-based Approach

Authors

  • Alejandro Suárez Rodríguez Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Keywords:

Role and Reference Grammar, Linking algorithm, PerLA corpus, Alzheimer's disease

Abstract

Quantitative studies about linguistic aspects of Alzheimer’s disease have been more abundant when compared to studies from a qualitative viewpoint. Thus, this article propounds applying the linking algorithm shown in Role and Reference Grammar and its application to the PerLA corpus of Spanish patients with Alzheimer’s with the aim of identifying the linguistic deficits encountered in the first stage of the disease. This will allow us to show preliminary results on the application of this grammar to corpora and to prove its feasibility in a better description of Alzheimer’s disease.

Author Biography

Alejandro Suárez Rodríguez, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Graduado en Lenguas Modernas y doctorando en lingüística clínica por la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Mis intereses abarcan la lingüística de corpus, la lingüística computacional, la lingüística aplicada, la enseñanza del inglés como segunda lengua, la traducción, la traducción automática y los estudios fílmicos.

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Published

2022-01-31

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 1 (2021): January-December 2021

Section

Artículos Nuevos

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