Studies of language in dementia have been accumulating rapidly in the past decade, despite a dearth of such research in previous centuries. Reasons for the rapid development of this research area include the growth of the fields of behavioural neurology, neuropsychology and neurolinguistics; and the steady expansion of the elderly population with its concomitant abundance of demented persons.
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