TY - GEN
T1 - Age-Related Decline of Classifier Usage in Southwestern Mandarin
AU - Feng, Yun
AU - Feng, Yan
AU - Xie, Chenwei
AU - Wang, William Shi Yuan
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by HKRGC-GRF 15601718 awarded to W. S-Y. WANG, and a Joint Supervision Scheme to Chenwei XIE.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/1/24
Y1 - 2021/1/24
N2 - This pilot study examined the age-related decline of classifier usage in Southwestern Mandarin through comparing classifier score and the number of the default classifier ge among older adults aged 50-87 years. They were grouped into healthy, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) groups based on Montreal Cognitive Assessment. AD group used significantly more inappropriate classifiers and the default classifier ge than healthy group. Results also showed a significant correlation between cognitive/semantic abilities and classifier usage, indicating that the deficit of classifier usage was associated with declined cognitive/semantic abilities. Decline of semantic cognition with aging, specifically semantic store and processing, has been postulated as possible underlying explanation. However, no significant difference was found in classifier usage between healthy and MCI groups, which might reveal that their classifier usage and semantic cognition was still normal.
AB - This pilot study examined the age-related decline of classifier usage in Southwestern Mandarin through comparing classifier score and the number of the default classifier ge among older adults aged 50-87 years. They were grouped into healthy, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) groups based on Montreal Cognitive Assessment. AD group used significantly more inappropriate classifiers and the default classifier ge than healthy group. Results also showed a significant correlation between cognitive/semantic abilities and classifier usage, indicating that the deficit of classifier usage was associated with declined cognitive/semantic abilities. Decline of semantic cognition with aging, specifically semantic store and processing, has been postulated as possible underlying explanation. However, no significant difference was found in classifier usage between healthy and MCI groups, which might reveal that their classifier usage and semantic cognition was still normal.
KW - aging
KW - classifiers
KW - language decline
KW - semantic cognition
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U2 - 10.1109/ISCSLP49672.2021.9362071
DO - 10.1109/ISCSLP49672.2021.9362071
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85102570190
T3 - 2021 12th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, ISCSLP 2021
BT - 2021 12th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, ISCSLP 2021
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 12th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, ISCSLP 2021
Y2 - 24 January 2021 through 27 January 2021
ER -