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Less is more in language production: Shorter sentences contain more informative words

2022-06-03

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Agrammatism is characterized by short sentences, the omission of function words, a higher ratio of heavy to light verbs, and a decreased use of verbs relative to nouns. Despite the observation of these phenomena more than two centuries ago, there has been no unifying theory to explain all features of agrammatism. Here, by first examining the language of patients with primary progressive aphasia, we show that the s...

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Literature Corpus work: ecfb0493-ca4a-54bf-aaa2-b8e0a9cafde6
DOI: 10.1101/2022.06.02.22275938

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