1986
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.148.3.275
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The Diagnosis of Schizophrenia by Language Analysis

Abstract: Our aim was to test the findings of a study which claimed that, if the syntactic structure of schizophrenic speech were subjected to a detailed linguistic analysis, clear differences would be demonstrated between schizophrenic, manic and control populations. It was confirmed that schizophrenics do have less syntactically complex speech which contains more errors. Using linguistic variables in a discriminant function analysis, it was possible to predict diagnoses correctly in 79% of cases.

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“…On the other hand, the variety of subtle between-group differences allowed us, when the respective variables were analyzed as a multivariate entity, to discriminate between diagnostic groups at an overall performance of 72.7% correctly classified patients. The respective classification rates were in good accordance with previous reports in the literature [9,12,22,48,49].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 81%
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“…On the other hand, the variety of subtle between-group differences allowed us, when the respective variables were analyzed as a multivariate entity, to discriminate between diagnostic groups at an overall performance of 72.7% correctly classified patients. The respective classification rates were in good accordance with previous reports in the literature [9,12,22,48,49].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 81%
“…Fraser et al [12] collected free speech samples of 151 schizophrenic, manic, and nonpsychiatric speakers and subjected the empirical data to a factor analysis which yielded several first-order factors, including syntactic complexity, fluency, and syntactic as well as semantic integrity. Thomas et al [13] attempted to quantify the linguistic performance of patients suffering from acute positive and chronic negative schizophrenia.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…En primer lugar, nuestros datos confirman la hipótesis (defendida en los últimos años sobre todo por Chaika 1974Chaika , 1977Chaika , 1982aChaika , 1982Rochester y Martin, 1979;Hoffman et al, 1982;y Fraser et al, 1986) de que, comparados con un grupo de sujetos formales, los esquizofrénicos presentan una perturbación en su capacidad para producir discursos estructuralmente bien construidos. Comparados con los de sus controles, los discursos de nuestros pacientes presentaron, por ejemplo, los siguientes rasgos:…”
Section: Resultados I Significación Diagnóstica De Los íNdices Lingüunclassified
“…(1982Hoffman y cols. ( , 1984, y en prensa), Chaika y Alexander (1982) y Fraser et al (1986) -por citar los más representativos-han aportado evidencia congruente con la hipótesis de que, cuando son comparados con sujetos normales, los esquizofrénicos muestran perturbaciones severas relacionadas con la planificación, codificación y realización lingüística de sus discursos (especialmente en lo que respecta a los componentes semántico y pragmático del procesamiento). Sin embargo, sólo en muy pocos estudios (vg.…”
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