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Language Structure and Predictability in Overinclusive Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

D. S. Hart  and
R. W. Payne
D. S. Hart
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
R. W. Payne
Affiliation:
Department of Behavioral Science, Temple University Medical School, c/o Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, Henry Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. 19129, U.S.A.
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Deviant language behaviour is the primary basis for the clinical inference of thought disorder. Bleuler (1950), for example, emphasizes loose associations and disjointed utterances. Mayer-Gross, Slater, and Roth (1960) state that thought disorder is indicated by such conversation characteristics as ‘woolly vagueness', in-consequential following of side issues, direction by alliteration, analogies or clang associations, and the use of words out of context. However, psychological studies have typically used measures of disordered thinking derived from performance on categorization tasks. Such tasks do not obviously measure the abnormality which is definitive for the clinician. The study reported here was an attempt to relate measures of language effectiveness to overinclusive thought disorder.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 123 , Issue 577 , December 1973 , pp. 643 - 652
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973 

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