del toro and altmann, raymer, leon, blonder, and rothi
This paper introduces new discourse concept: Utterance with New Information (UNI)
Researchers interviewed aphasic subjects, hired transcriptionist to transcribe, gave treatment, then gave another interview and transcribed. They counted instances of nouns, verbs, etc. and were unable to say that treatment led to better utterances.
But they were able to find greater quality of discourse after treatment.
"These findings demonstrate that discourse analysis can be a viable adjunct for assessing word retrieval treatment outcomes, especially given that improving discourse is the ultimate goal of aphasia treatment."
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