Table 3.
The absolute mean differences in POS tag counts and two-sided Welch’s t-test p-values obtained from TNL and Pitt transcripts, where bold indicates differences with p-values above the alpha threshold of 0.01. NOUN, ADJ, ADV, VERB, DET, IN, PRON, and PROPN represent noun, adjective, adverb, verb, determiner, preposition, pronoun, and proper noun, respectively.
| Subset | NOUN | ADJ | ADV | VERB | DET | CONJ | IN | PRON | PROPN |
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| Mean difference (p-value) | |||||||||
| Dementia vs. younger | 0.16 (0) | 0.04 (0.02) | 0.13 (0) | 0.23 (0) | 0.21 (0) | 0.32 (0) | 0.16 (0) | 0.02 (0.01) | 0.03 (0.46) |
| Control vs. younger | 0.16 (0) | 0.03 (0.12) | 0.22 (0) | 0.48 (0) | 0.42 (0) | 0.34 (0) | 0.37 (0) | 0.01 (0.11) | 0.12 (0) |
| Dementia vs. older | 0.1 (0.02) | 0.07 (0) | 0.3 (0) | (0.91) | 0.33 (0) | 0.31 (0) | 0.09 (0) | 0.04 (0) | 0.22 (0) |
| Control vs. older | 0.51 (0) | (0.78) | 0.39 (0) | 0.25 (0) | 0.53 (0) | 0.33 (0) | 0.29 (0) | 0.03 (0) | 0.31 (0) |
| Dementia vs. control | 0.41 (0) | 0.07 (0) | 0.09 (0) | 0.25 (0) | 0.21 (0) | 0.01 (0.66) | 0.2 (0) | 0.01 (0) | 0.09 (0.01) |
| Younger vs. older | 0.05 (0.13) | 0.03 (0.11) | 0.17 (0) | 0.23 (0) | 0.11 (0) | 0.01 (0.68) | 0.07 (0) | 0.02 (0) | 0.20 (0) |