Open AccessStylostatistics of Various Psychiatric Groups
Author(s) -
Allan G. Reynolds,
Ze W. Pylyshyn
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
language and speech
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.713
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1756-6053
pISSN - 0023-8309
DOI - 10.1177/002383097001300305
Subject(s) - vocabulary , psychology , word length , word (group theory) , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychiatry , linguistics , cognitive psychology , philosophy
Thirty non-syntactic stylostatistical measures of language performance were used , in an attempt to differentiate psychiatric patients. Only 5 of these measures showed discriminatory ability; schizophrenics reliably displayed longer words and more variability in word length and neurotics showed a paucity of usage vocabulary size.
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