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Psycholinguistics of schizophrenic language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Gerald Silverman
Gerald Silverman
Affiliation:
From the Department of Psychiatry, St. George's Hospital, London, and the University Department of Psychiatry, Sheffield
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Synopsis

Cloze procedures using fifth and fourth word deletions were compared for schizophrenic and non-schizophrenic speech transcripts. Both methods distinguished between the schizophrenic and non-schizophrenic speech. Fourth word deletion gave lower scores overall and this effect was significantly greater for the more disorganized schizophrenic speech. An encoding deficit involving inappropriate repetition is discussed as a possible explanation for the findings.

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Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , August 1972 , pp. 254 - 259
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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