Schizophrenia and the structure of language: The linguist's view

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 85-98

  Covington, Michael A ^a   He, Congzhou ^a   Brown, Cati ^a   Naçi, Lorina ^a,d   McClain, Jonathan T ^a,e   Fjordbak, Bess Sirmon ^a   Semple, James ^b,c   Brown, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Language; Pragmatics; Schizophasia; Semantics; Speech; Thought disorder

Indexed keywords

DYSPHASIA; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MORPHOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF MONITORING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; THOUGHT DISORDER; VOICE;

EID: 21844476474     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2005.01.016     Document Type: Article

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