Language in Schizophrenia Part 2: What Can Psycholinguistics Bring to the Study of Schizophrenia and Vice Versa?

Linguistics and Language Compass

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 590-604

  Kuperberg, Gina R ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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EID: 77957244664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1749818X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2010.00217.x     Document Type: Review

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