TY - JOUR
T1 - Language Generation in Schizophrenia and Mania
T2 - The Relationships among Verbosity, Syntactic Complexity, and Pausing
AU - Barch, Deanna M.
AU - Berenbaum, Howard
N1 - Funding Information:
Preparation of this article was supported in part by a NARSAD Young Investigators Award to Deanna M. Barch and by a National Institute of Mental Health Grant (MH50531-01A2) to Howard Berenbaum. Deanna M. Barch is currentlyat WesternPsy-chiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical School. 1 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois. 2 All correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Deanna M. Barch, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213.
PY - 1997/7
Y1 - 1997/7
N2 - We examined the relationships among verbosity, syntactic complexity, and pausing in the speech of 21 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (3rd ed., rev.) (DSM-III-R diagnosed schizophrenic participants and 19 DSM-III-R diagnosed manic participants. We found that less verbosity was associated with both less syntactic complexity and greater pausing. In addition, less syntactic complexity was associated with greater pausing. The strength of these associations did not differ significantly between the two diagnostic groups. We propose that deficits in verbosity, syntactic complexity, and pausing are all related to a disturbance in message generation. We discuss the consistent of this hypothesis with previous research linking information processing and frontal lobe deficits to disturbances in verbosity, syntactic complexity, and pausing.
AB - We examined the relationships among verbosity, syntactic complexity, and pausing in the speech of 21 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (3rd ed., rev.) (DSM-III-R diagnosed schizophrenic participants and 19 DSM-III-R diagnosed manic participants. We found that less verbosity was associated with both less syntactic complexity and greater pausing. In addition, less syntactic complexity was associated with greater pausing. The strength of these associations did not differ significantly between the two diagnostic groups. We propose that deficits in verbosity, syntactic complexity, and pausing are all related to a disturbance in message generation. We discuss the consistent of this hypothesis with previous research linking information processing and frontal lobe deficits to disturbances in verbosity, syntactic complexity, and pausing.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0031183181
U2 - 10.1023/A:1025026019107
DO - 10.1023/A:1025026019107
M3 - Article
C2 - 9232008
AN - SCOPUS:0031183181
SN - 0090-6905
VL - 26
SP - 401
EP - 412
JO - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
JF - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
IS - 4
ER -