Browsing by Author "Hinzen, Wolfram"

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  • A finer-grained linguistic profile of Alzheimer’s disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment
    Chapin, Kayla B.; Clarke, Natasha; Garrard, Peter; Hinzen, Wolfram (Elsevier, 2022)
    Linguistic measures in spontaneous speech have shown promise in the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but it remains unknown which specific linguistic variables show sensitivity and how language decline relates ...
  • A systematic linguistic profile of spontaneous narrative speech in pre-symptomatic and early stage Huntington's disease
    Hinzen, Wolfram; Rosselló Ximenes, Joana; Morey, Cati; Camara, Estela; Garcia-Gorro, Clara; Salvador, Raymond; de Diego-Balaguer, Ruth (Elsevier, 2018)
    Cognitive decline accompanying the clinically more salient motor symptoms of Huntington's disease (HD) has been widely noted and can precede motor symptoms onset. Less clear is how such decline bears on language functions ...
  • Auditory hallucinations activate language and verbal short-term memory, but not auditory, brain regions
    Fuentes‑Claramonte, Paola; Soler‑Vidal, Joan; Salgado‑Pineda, Pilar; García‑León, María Ángeles; Ramiro, Nuria; Santo‑Angles, Aniol; Llanos Torres, María; Tristany, Josep; Guerrero‑Pedraza, Amalia; Munuera, Josep; Sarró, Salvador; Salvador, Raymond; Hinzen, Wolfram; McKenna, Peter J.; Pomarol‑Clotet, Edith (Nature Research, 2021)
    Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH, ‘hearing voices’) are an important symptom of schizophrenia but their biological basis is not well understood. One longstanding approach proposes that they are perceptual in nature, ...
  • Brain correlates of speech perception in schizophrenia patients with and without auditory hallucinations
    Soler-Vidal, Joan; Fuentes-Claramonte, Paola; Salgado-Pineda, Pilar; Ramiro, Nuria; García-León, María Ángeles; Llanos Torres, María; Arévalo, Antonio; Guerrero-Pedraza, Amalia; Munuera, Josep; Sarró, Salvador; Salvador, Raymond; Hinzen, Wolfram; McKenna, Peter; Pomarol-Clotet, Edith (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022)
    The experience of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH, “hearing voices”) in schizophrenia has been found to be associated with reduced auditory cortex activation during perception of real auditory stimuli like tones and ...
  • Breaking the flow of thought: increase of empty pauses in the connected speech of people with mild and moderate Alzheimer's disease
    Lofgren, Mary; Hinzen, Wolfram (Elsevier, 2022)
  • Can delusions be understood linguistically?
    Hinzen, Wolfram; Rosselló Ximenes, Joana; McKenna, Peter J. (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2016)
    Delusions are widely believed to reflect disturbed cognitive function, but the nature of this remains elusive. The "un-Cartesian" cognitive-linguistic hypothesis maintains (a) that there is no thought separate from language, ...
  • Correlations between Case and the D-system and the interpretability of Case
    Martin, Txuss; Sitaridou, Ioanna; Hinzen, Wolfram (Septentrio Academic Publishing, 2021)
    A correlation between articles and Case has long been noted based on diachronic evidence. Beyond articles, evidence supports that this correlation extends further to clitics and the determiner system (the D-system) at ...
  • Deficits in nominal reference identify thought disordered speech in a narrative production task
    Hinzen, Wolfram; Sevilla, Gabriel; Rosselló Ximenes, Joana; Salvador, Raymond; Sarró, Salvador; López-Araquistain, Laura; Pomarol-Clotet, Edith (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018)
    Formal thought disorder (TD) is a neuropathology manifest in formal language dysfunction, but few behavioural linguistic studies exist. These have highlighted problems in the domain of semantics and more specifically of ...
  • Deictic and propositional meaning—new perspectives on language in schizophrenia
    Zimmerer, Vitor C.; Watson, Stuart; Turkington, Douglas; Ferrier, I. Nicol; Hinzen, Wolfram (Frontiers, 2017)
    Emerging linguistic evidence points at disordered language behavior as a defining characteristic of schizophrenia. In this article, we review this literature and demonstrate how a framework focusing on two core functions ...
  • Disturbing the rhythm of thought: speech pausing patterns in schizophrenia, with and without formal thought disorder
    Hinzen, Wolfram; Çokal, Derya; Zimmerer, Vitor C.; Turkington, Douglas; Ferrier, I. Nicol; Varley, Rosemary; Watson, Stuart (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019)
    Everyday speech is produced with an intricate timing pattern and rhythm. Speech units follow each other with short interleaving pauses, which can be either bridged by fillers (erm, ah) or empty. Through their syntactic ...
  • Explaining early generics: a linguistic model
    Hinzen, Wolfram; Mattos, Otávio (Wiley, 2021)
    Preschoolers naturally form mental representations that capture generic knowledge about object kinds. These have been considered to pose a special explanatory and learning challenge. We here argue for a new deductive model ...
  • Factive and counterfactive interpretation of embedded clauses in aphasia and its relationship with lexical, syntactic and general cognitive capacities
    Hinzen, Wolfram; Zimmerer, Vitor C.; Varley, Rosemary; Deamer, Felicity (Elsevier, 2019)
    In factive clausal embedding ([He knows [that it is warm outside]]), the embedded clause is presupposed to be true. In non-factive embedding ([He thinks [that it is warm outside]]) there is no presupposition, and in ...
  • False belief and relative clauses in autism spectrum disorders
    Hinzen, Wolfram; Durrleman, Stephanie; Franck, Julie (Elsevier, 2018)
    Previous studies have suggested sentential complementation is the crucial ingredient of languagethat relates to false-belief (FB) reasoning, while the role of relative clauses (RCs) is less clear.Nevertheless, under the ...
  • Grammar in ‘agrammatical’ aphasia: what’s intact?
    Zhang, Han; Hinzen, Wolfram (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022)
    Background: Aphasia following cerebro-vascular accidents has been a primary source of insight for models of language in the brain. However, deviant language patterns in aphasia may reflect processing limitations and cognitive ...
  • Is 'the First Person' a linguistic concept essentially?
    Hinzen, Wolfram; Schroeder, Kristen (Imprint Academic, 2015)
    The notion of 'the first person' is centrally invoked in philosophical discussions of selfhood, subjectivity, and personhood. We ask whether this notion, as invoked in these discussions, is con-tingently or essentially a ...
  • Is our mental grammar just a set of constructions?
    Hinzen, Wolfram (Linguistic Society of America, 2016)
    According to this book, ‘each of us carries around in our heads a “mental grammar” far more impressive than any written grammar’ (6); this grammar is made up of ‘abstract rules’ that can generate a ‘seemingly infinite ...
  • Language disintegration in spontaneous speech in Huntington’s disease: a more fine-grained analysis
    Tovar, Antonia; Garí, Aina; Ruiz-Idiago, Jesús; Mareca Viladrich, Celia; Pomarol-Clotet, Edith; Rosselló Ximenes, Joana; Hinzen, Wolfram (Elsevier, 2020)
    Huntington’s disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disease causing motor symptoms along with cognitive and affective problems. Recent evidence suggests that HD also affects language across core levels of linguistic organization, ...
  • Language disintegration under conditions of severe formal thought disorder
    Tovar Torres, Antonia; Schmeisser Nieto, Wolfgang Sebastian; Garí Soler, Aina; Morey Matamalas, Catalina; Hinzen, Wolfram (Open Library of Humanities, 2019)
    On current models of the language faculty, the language system is taken to be divided by an interface with systems of thought. However, thought of the type expressed in language is difficult to access in language-independent ...
  • Language level predicts perceptual categorization of complex reversible events in children
    Hinzen, Wolfram; Peinado, Elisa; Perry, Scott James; Schroeder, Kristen; Lombardo, Mariana (Elsevier, 2022)
    Language plays a well-documented role in perceptual object categorization, but little is known about its role in the categorization of complex events. We explored this here with a perspective from age or developmentally ...
  • Linguistic evidence against predicativism
    Hinzen, Wolfram (Wiley, 2017)
    The view that proper names are uniformly predicates (‘predicativism’) has recently gained prominence. I review linguistic evidence against it. Overall, the (cross-) linguistic evidence suggests that proper names function ...