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Computer‐assisted linguistic analysis of two mentally retarded psychotic female's texts
Author(s) -
FRASER W. I.,
KING K.,
THOMAS P.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1989.tb01498.x
Subject(s) - mirroring , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychology , mania , linguistic analysis , bipolar disorder , mentally ill , mentally retarded , linguistics , mental illness , developmental psychology , psychiatry , mental health , communication , cognition , philosophy
. Prompted monologues from a schizophrenic and manic mentally handicappedfemale were analysed using a computer program designed to generate 118 syntactic variables. The procedure was repeated after several years. The linguistic profiles and their change over time were characteristic of chronic schizophrenia and mania, respectively: the schizophrenic‐illness‐based profileshowed further linguistic disintegration; the manic‐illness‐based profile showed linguistic recovery, mirroring clinical improvement.