TELL 2.0: Interpretable speech biomarkers for dementia in research and clinical applications [PDF]
Abstract Background Launched in early 2023, the Toolkit to Examine Lifelike Language (TELL) is a web app designed to gather voice samples and extract speech biomarkers for dementia. Its initial version enhanced clinical evaluations across diverse regions, including under‐resourced countries.
Ferrante F +14 more
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Digital speech biomarkers of cognitive functioning in multilingual Kenyan adults [PDF]
Abstract Background Digital speech biomarkers show promise as cost‐effective and scalable diagnostic tools for cognitive decline and dementia in African research and healthcare settings. However, significant gaps remain in language‐specific normative data, cross‐linguistic validation, and standardized protocols for multilingual populations.
Garcia A +15 more
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Testing speech biomarkers against cognitive and neural signatures of Alzheimer's dementia [PDF]
Abstract Background Automated analysis of word properties (WP) and speech timing (ST) offers a cutting‐edge digital method for identifying scalable markers of Alzheimer's disease dementia (ADD). Quantification of lexical features during speech can not only detect ADD cases but also predict cognitive performance and associated anatomical‐functional ...
Caro I +10 more
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Digits Across Languages: The Role of Lexical and Numerical Characteristics in Digit Span Performance Across Fourteen Languages [PDF]
Abstract Background The digit span task, a measure of auditory verbal short‐term and working memory, is widely used globally. Emerging research has revealed variations in digit span performance across languages among young adults; however, studies focusing on older populations are scarce and typically involving limited languages.
Tee B +23 more
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The syntax of naming constructions in European Portuguese dialects: variation and change
This paper discusses the syntax of naming constructions with the verb chamar ‘to call’. We show that in some varieties of European Portuguese the verb chamar displays an alternation in the expression of the named entity, which is manifested by the ...
Adriana Cardoso, Catarina Magro
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Uma contribuição da prosódia na desambiguação de sentenças semanticamente ambíguas
Com enfoque na interface prosódia-semântica-pragmática, este artigo discute o papel da prosódia e entoação na interpretação de sentenças semanticamente ambíguas.
Juliana Cemin +2 more
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Este estudo objetiva entender como as identidades profissionais em um AEE são construídas no contexto das relações profissionais entre as pedagogas e os grupos terapêuticos.
Lissa Mara Saraiva Fontenele
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Por uma ‘proximidade crítica’ nos estudos em Linguística Aplicada
Este artigo defende a necessidade de proximidade critica em Linguistica Aplicada com base na desconstrucao de uma episteme ocidentalista que separa pesquisa, pesquisador e poder. Tal crenca nos levou a prefiguracao de um pesquisador branco, heterossexual,
Luiz Paulo da Moita Lopes +1 more
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Neste trabalho, procuraremos sugerir uma interpretação semântico-pragmática para as Sentenças Imperativas (Imp) no Português Brasileiro (PB) que se utilizam do verbo modal/operador modal “pode/poder”, ao contrário de outras interpretações que se ...
Ednei de Souza Leal +2 more
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“I WATCH YOU”: UMA ANÁLISE DIALÓGICA DA LINGUAGEM VERBO-VISUAL DE CAPA DA REVISTA ÉPOCA SOBRE A ESPIONAGEM DIGITAL DO GOVERNO NORTE-AMERICANO [PDF]
In this paper, we aimed to analyze, based on the dialogic approach of the Bakhtin Circle, the verb-visual language of the cover of the edition number 790 of Época magazine, which characterized by constructing meanings related to the digital surveillance ...
ELAYNE GONÇALVES SILVA +1 more
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