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Speech Prosody as a Bridge Between Psychopathology and Linguistics: The Case of the Schizophrenia Spectrum

Patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders experience severe difficulties in interpersonal communication, as described by traditional psychopathology and current research on social cognition. From a linguistic perspective, pragmatic abilities are crucial for successful communication. Empirical s...

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Autores principales: Lucarini, Valeria, Grice, Martine, Cangemi, Francesco, Zimmermann, Juliane T., Marchesi, Carlo, Vogeley, Kai, Tonna, Matteo
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7522437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33101074
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.531863
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author Lucarini, Valeria
Grice, Martine
Cangemi, Francesco
Zimmermann, Juliane T.
Marchesi, Carlo
Vogeley, Kai
Tonna, Matteo
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Grice, Martine
Cangemi, Francesco
Zimmermann, Juliane T.
Marchesi, Carlo
Vogeley, Kai
Tonna, Matteo
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description Patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders experience severe difficulties in interpersonal communication, as described by traditional psychopathology and current research on social cognition. From a linguistic perspective, pragmatic abilities are crucial for successful communication. Empirical studies have shown that these abilities are significantly impaired in this group of patients. Prosody, the tone of voice with which words and sentences are pronounced, is one of the most important carriers of pragmatic meaning and can serve a range of functions from linguistic to emotional ones. Most of the existing literature on prosody of patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders focuses on the expression of emotion, generally showing significant impairments. By contrast, the use of non-emotional prosody in these patients is scarcely investigated. In this paper, we first present a linguistic model to classify prosodic functions. Second, we discuss existing studies on the use of non-emotional prosody in these patients, providing an overview of the state of the art. Third, we delineate possible future lines of research in this field, also taking into account some classical psychopathological assumptions, for both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.
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spelling pubmed-75224372020-10-22 Speech Prosody as a Bridge Between Psychopathology and Linguistics: The Case of the Schizophrenia Spectrum Lucarini, Valeria Grice, Martine Cangemi, Francesco Zimmermann, Juliane T. Marchesi, Carlo Vogeley, Kai Tonna, Matteo Front Psychiatry Psychiatry Patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders experience severe difficulties in interpersonal communication, as described by traditional psychopathology and current research on social cognition. From a linguistic perspective, pragmatic abilities are crucial for successful communication. Empirical studies have shown that these abilities are significantly impaired in this group of patients. Prosody, the tone of voice with which words and sentences are pronounced, is one of the most important carriers of pragmatic meaning and can serve a range of functions from linguistic to emotional ones. Most of the existing literature on prosody of patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders focuses on the expression of emotion, generally showing significant impairments. By contrast, the use of non-emotional prosody in these patients is scarcely investigated. In this paper, we first present a linguistic model to classify prosodic functions. Second, we discuss existing studies on the use of non-emotional prosody in these patients, providing an overview of the state of the art. Third, we delineate possible future lines of research in this field, also taking into account some classical psychopathological assumptions, for both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7522437/ /pubmed/33101074 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.531863 Text en Copyright © 2020 Lucarini, Grice, Cangemi, Zimmermann, Marchesi, Vogeley and Tonna http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Psychiatry
Lucarini, Valeria
Grice, Martine
Cangemi, Francesco
Zimmermann, Juliane T.
Marchesi, Carlo
Vogeley, Kai
Tonna, Matteo
Speech Prosody as a Bridge Between Psychopathology and Linguistics: The Case of the Schizophrenia Spectrum
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title_short Speech Prosody as a Bridge Between Psychopathology and Linguistics: The Case of the Schizophrenia Spectrum
title_sort speech prosody as a bridge between psychopathology and linguistics: the case of the schizophrenia spectrum
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7522437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33101074
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.531863
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