Linguistic markers of psychosis in Mandarin Chinese: relations to theory of mind
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- dc.contributor.author Zhang, Han
- dc.contributor.author Parola, Alberto
- dc.contributor.author Zhou, Yuan
- dc.contributor.author Wang, Huiling Wang
- dc.contributor.author Bliksted Vibeke
- dc.contributor.author Fusaroli, Riccardo
- dc.contributor.author Hinzen, Wolfram
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-11-28T08:48:14Z
- dc.date.available 2024-11-28T08:48:14Z
- dc.date.issued 2023
- dc.description.abstract Disorganized and impoverished language is a key feature of schizophrenia (Sz), but whether and which linguistic changes previously observed in Indo-European languages generalize to other languages remains unclear. Targeting Mandarin Chinese, we aimed to profile aspects of grammatical complexity that we hypothesized would be reduced in schizophrenia in a task of verbalizing social events. 51 individuals with Sz and 39 controls participated in the animated triangles task, a standardized measure of theory of mind (ToM), in which participants describe triangles moving in either a random or an ‘intentional’ condition. Results revealed that clauses embedded as arguments in other clauses were reduced in Sz, and that both groups produced such clauses and grammatical aspect more frequently in the intentional condition. ToM scores specifically correlated with production of embedded argument clauses. These results document grammatical impoverishment in Sz in Chinese across several structural domains, which in some of its specific aspects relate to mentalizing performance.
- dc.description.sponsorship This work was supported by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MCIU) and the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI), Spain (https://www.aei.gob.es/) under Grant PID2019-105241GB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 to W.H., by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca) and the European Social Found (https://agaur.gencat.cat/en/inici/) under Grant 2021 FI_B 00166 to H.Z., by seed funding from the Interacting Minds Center, Aarhus University to R.F., and by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions—H2020-MSCA-IF-2018 grant (ID: 832518, Project: MOVES) to A.P. We would like to thank all participants, investigators, and coordinators involved in the data collection process. Our sincere gratitude also goes to Ruoyang Shi for his kind assistance in reliability ratings.
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- dc.identifier.citation Zhang H, Parola A, Zhou Y, Wang H, Bliksted V, Fusaroli R, Hinzen W. Linguistic markers of psychosis in Mandarin Chinese: relations to theory of mind. Psychiatry Res. 2023 Jul;325:115253. DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2023.115253
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2023.115253
- dc.identifier.issn 0165-1781
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/68857
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Elsevier
- dc.relation.ispartof Psychiatry Research. 2023 Jul;325:115253
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/832518
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PID2019-105241GB-I00
- dc.rights © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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- dc.subject.keyword Schizophrenia
- dc.subject.keyword Theory of mind
- dc.subject.keyword Spontaneous speech
- dc.subject.keyword Language complexity
- dc.subject.keyword Mandarin Chinese
- dc.title Linguistic markers of psychosis in Mandarin Chinese: relations to theory of mind
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