A stylometric analysis of conversational speech of aphasic patients
Violeta Holmes, Sameer Kumar Singh · Literary and Linguistic Computing · 1996
In general, existing lexical tests carried out in speech therapy clinics deal with the ability to recognize 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 situtation and which may suggest ways of tackling lexical deficit.