{"id":24543,"date":"2019-10-16T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=24543"},"modified":"2019-10-16T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T11:45:00","slug":"language-variation-as-dementia-symptom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/language-variation-as-dementia-symptom\/","title":{"rendered":"Language variation as symptom of dementia,1985- 2016 study"},"content":{"rendered":"

Language variation from writing styles is a possible effect of cognitive decline.\u00a0<\/strong>There exists a link of a writer reverting to an original writing style from a current one when managing a cognitive decline ailment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dementia influenced language variation<\/b><\/h2>\n

Some researchers<\/a> from the University of Toronto observed the writing styles of Vivian White in her three decades of writing, from 1985 to 2016.\u00a0<\/strong>
\nThe researchers found that Whites’ style of writing change after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, characterized by dementia.<\/span>
\nStudying Whites’ diary entries over the 31 years, the researchers noted the absence of the first-person pronoun “I” in her handwritten contents and a subsequent inclusion after the diagnosis.<\/span>
\nThis discovery suggests the existence of a language variation between primary languages and those learned later in life with people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease.<\/span>
\nAccording to the researchers, this observed phenomenon applies to write styles learned later in life with primary forms of writing.<\/span>
\nThe study on the diary entries of Vivian White revealed the language<\/a> variation on the sentence “Made cranberry muffins,” which was Whites’ form of writing before the diagnosis.<\/span>
\nAfter diagnosis with Alzheimer’s disease, White reverted to writing the sentence as thus: “I made cranberry muffins,” including the first-person pronoun “I.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Diary writing style<\/b><\/h2>\n

Diary writing involves making notes in discrete entries arranged by date. It is typical of the writing style to omit ‘I’ in some locations, according to Sali Tagliamonte, a professor in the Department of Linguistics.<\/span>
\nDiary writing is a learned behavior acquired later in life than the primary form of writing, which is easily lost with dementia ailments, as hypothesized by the researchers.<\/span>
\nFollowing the recent findings of language variation, Tagliamonte highlighted the importance of observational studies in illuminating cognitive development.<\/span>
\nThe researcher called for more linguistics to further study language usage with persons diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.<\/strong>
\nA co-researcher mentioned that current language studies are more focused on young speakers’ innovative choice of words. Longitudinal studies are rarely done, said Katherine Pabst.<\/span>
\nThe linguistic researchers presented this discovery in the annual New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference, held October 10-12 at the University of Oregon.<\/span>
\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Language variation from writing styles is a possible effect of cognitive decline.\u00a0There exists a link of a writer reverting to an original writing style from a current one when managing a cognitive decline ailment. Dementia influenced language variation Some researchers from the University of Toronto observed the writing styles of Vivian White in her three […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}