Abstract
We report here a patient considered to have Alzheimer's disease. The condition in initially presented as memory failure at approximately 52 years of age and thereafter she gradually showed abnormal behavior, confabulation and delusion of pregnancy. Dementia showed a progressive course and in parallel, linguistically interesting findings were observed : dementia became severe the size of her vocabulary decreased with increasing difficulty in communicating and expression was limited to emotional languages.
Philologically the following changes occured in a monologue pattern : from repetition language to echolalia, logoclonia, rhymed specified repetition language style and arrangement of phonemes with a fixed pattern and rhythm.
