Nomınal and Verbal Predıcate Use in Schızophrenıa
Objective. Schizophrenia’s first characteristics invokes the notion of disordered thought and language. Accordingly one of several diagnostic characteristics of schizophrenia is an impairment of verbal communication. To determine the detailed nature of language impairments taking into consideration...
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Pereiaslav-Khmelnytsky Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical University
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| author | Айшегюль Озджан Вурал Гюльмира Куруоглу |
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| description | Objective. Schizophrenia’s first characteristics invokes the notion of disordered thought and language. Accordingly one of several diagnostic characteristics of schizophrenia is an impairment of verbal communication. To determine the detailed nature of language impairments taking into consideration these problems the aim of the present study was to analyze nominal and verbal predicate use produced by schizophrenic patients and control group during their speech as both predicates require different processings.
Materials & Methods. Fifty patients with schizophrenia diagnosed according to DSM-IV criteria were included into the study and compared to fifty healthy subjects matched for age, sex and education level with the patients participated in the study. The subjects’ speech was evaluated by using picture description test, picture story telling test, subject-based narration test and free verbal narration test. The data consisted of 8–10 minute recorded interviews. The recordings were transcribed based on Du Bois’ Discourse Transcription Symbols and analyzed statistically and linguistically.
Results. The results showed that the number of nominal and verbal predicates used by the patients with schizophrenia differed from the control group. Schizophrenia patients preferred nominal predicates more than control group in all tests. However, control group used significantly more verbal predicates in all tests.
Conclusions. In this study it was hypothesized that language used by the patients with schizophrenia plays a central role in the this disease than commonly supposed and the phenomena of schizophrenic language can be regarded as reflections of a more basic disturbance of thought. At the end of the study based on this hypothesis patients were concluded to have simplified speech in addition to the disorganized speech defined in the field. The reason for this simplification is thought to be because of the predicate processing in the brain. The complement of a verb is always a noun phrase, which can be simple or complex, the patients tended to use nominal predicates more as it did not require any constituents and thus they simlified their speech because of their language and thought disorders. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0a75e3ab8bfc40b98c7abeee77b4c5a52022-12-22T03:04:40ZengPereiaslav-Khmelnytsky Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical UniversityПсихолінгвістика2309-17972415-33972020-04-0127221322810.31470/2309-1797-2020-27-2-213-228914Nomınal and Verbal Predıcate Use in SchızophrenıaАйшегюль Озджан Вурал0Гюльмира Куруоглу1Dokuz Eylul University, TurkeyDokuz Eylul University, TurkeyObjective. Schizophrenia’s first characteristics invokes the notion of disordered thought and language. Accordingly one of several diagnostic characteristics of schizophrenia is an impairment of verbal communication. To determine the detailed nature of language impairments taking into consideration these problems the aim of the present study was to analyze nominal and verbal predicate use produced by schizophrenic patients and control group during their speech as both predicates require different processings. Materials & Methods. Fifty patients with schizophrenia diagnosed according to DSM-IV criteria were included into the study and compared to fifty healthy subjects matched for age, sex and education level with the patients participated in the study. The subjects’ speech was evaluated by using picture description test, picture story telling test, subject-based narration test and free verbal narration test. The data consisted of 8–10 minute recorded interviews. The recordings were transcribed based on Du Bois’ Discourse Transcription Symbols and analyzed statistically and linguistically. Results. The results showed that the number of nominal and verbal predicates used by the patients with schizophrenia differed from the control group. Schizophrenia patients preferred nominal predicates more than control group in all tests. However, control group used significantly more verbal predicates in all tests. Conclusions. In this study it was hypothesized that language used by the patients with schizophrenia plays a central role in the this disease than commonly supposed and the phenomena of schizophrenic language can be regarded as reflections of a more basic disturbance of thought. At the end of the study based on this hypothesis patients were concluded to have simplified speech in addition to the disorganized speech defined in the field. The reason for this simplification is thought to be because of the predicate processing in the brain. The complement of a verb is always a noun phrase, which can be simple or complex, the patients tended to use nominal predicates more as it did not require any constituents and thus they simlified their speech because of their language and thought disorders.https://psycholing-journal.com/index.php/journal/article/view/914schizophrenia, sentence, predicate, nominal, verbal, language disorder, thought disorder. |
| spellingShingle | Айшегюль Озджан Вурал Гюльмира Куруоглу Nomınal and Verbal Predıcate Use in Schızophrenıa Психолінгвістика schizophrenia, sentence, predicate, nominal, verbal, language disorder, thought disorder. |
| title | Nomınal and Verbal Predıcate Use in Schızophrenıa |
| title_full | Nomınal and Verbal Predıcate Use in Schızophrenıa |
| title_fullStr | Nomınal and Verbal Predıcate Use in Schızophrenıa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Nomınal and Verbal Predıcate Use in Schızophrenıa |
| title_short | Nomınal and Verbal Predıcate Use in Schızophrenıa |
| title_sort | nominal and verbal predicate use in schizophrenia |
| topic | schizophrenia, sentence, predicate, nominal, verbal, language disorder, thought disorder. |
| url | https://psycholing-journal.com/index.php/journal/article/view/914 |
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