Browsing by Author "Turkington, Douglas"

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  • 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 ...
  • The language profile of formal thought disorder
    Hinzen, Wolfram; Çokal, Derya; Sevilla, Gabriel; Jones, William Stephen; Zimmerer, Vitor C.; Deamer, Felicity; Douglas, Maggie; Spencer, Helen; Turkington, Douglas; Ferrier, I. Nicol; Varley, Rosemary; Watson, Stuart (Nature Publishing Group, 2018)
    Formal thought disorder (FTD) is clinically manifested as disorganized speech, but there have been only few investigations of its linguistic properties. We examined how disturbance of thought may relate to the referential ...