Coreference Delays in Psychotic Discourse: Widening the Temporal Window.

ABSTRACT:

Background and hypothesis

Any form of coherent discourse depends on saying different things about the same entities at different times. Such recurrent references to the same entity need to predictably happen within certain temporal windows. We hypothesized that a failure of control over reference in speakers with schizophrenia (Sz) would become manifest through dynamic temporal measures.

Study design

Conversational speech with a mean of 909.2 words (SD: 178.4) from 20 Chilean Spanish speakers with chronic Sz, 20 speakers at clinical high risk (CHR), and 20 controls were collected. Using directed speech graphs with referential noun phrases (NPs) as nodes, we studied deviances in the topology and temporal distribution of such NPs and of the entities they denote over narrative

SUBMITTER: Palominos C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10031738 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature