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ERIC Number: EJ1302240
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-1368-2822
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Parkinson's Disease Impacts Feedback Production during Verbal Communication
International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, v56 n4 p826-840 Jul-Aug 2021
Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) leads to changes in verbal communications. The focus of most studies to date has been on speech impairment, which is specifically referred to as dysarthria. Although these studies are crucial to understanding the impact of PD on verbal communication, they do not focus on the features of dialogues between people with PD (PwPD) and other people in communicative contexts. Aims: To investigate whether PwPD produce less feedback than typical people during dialogue, thus potentially making it more difficult for them to reach mutual comprehension (i.e., common ground) with their conversational partner. Methods & Procedures: A matching task experiment was conducted during which an experimenter described abstract pictures to a participant, who was either a PwPD or a typical participant, so that he or she could organize these pictures in a grid. The participants could produce as much feedback as they liked. Outcomes & Results: PwPD were less likely to produce feedback than typical participants. This effect was mainly driven by two specific types of feedback: acknowledgment tokens and hesitations. Conclusions & Implications: The results suggest that PD impacts feedback production. This could decrease the communicative abilities of PwPD in interactive contexts by affecting grounding, that is, the ability to build common ground with others. This paper is one of the first to specifically document the production of feedback markers in PwPD. Future studies should examine the extent to which our results, which were obtained in a controlled dialogue task, may be generalized to daily-life conversions. From a clinical perspective, our study points to the necessity of assessing feedback production, and more generally abilities related to common ground construction and use, during PD progression.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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