A Stylometric Analysis of Conversational Speech of Aphasic Patients
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چکیده
In general, existing lexical tests carried out in speech therapy clinics deal with the ability to recognise written words and to name pictures of objects. Such tests assess abilities which are distinct from those required in spontaneous conversation and therefore cannot predict on their own what a patient is capable of in a communicative context. This paper aims to devise a method of statistically assessing an individual patient’s lexical ability in spontaneous conversation so as to provide an instrument which will be of use to speech therapists in a clinical situation and which may suggest ways of tackling lexical deficit. Stylometric analysis of conversational speech
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