{"pk":27196,"title":"Disfluencies in dialogues with patients with schizophrenia","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Disfluencies such as self-repairs, filled pauses such as ‘um’and silent pauses are pervasive in dialogue, but there is no con-sensus in the literature as to whether they reflect internal pro-duction pressures, or interactive issues – or how their effectsare manifest in dialogue. It is well-known that patients withschizophrenia have problems with language and social cogni-tive skills, yet little research has investigated how these impactinteraction. We report a study on the disfluency behaviours ofpatients with schizophrenia and their interlocutors who wereunaware of the patient’s diagnosis, compared to healthy con-trol groups. Results show that patients use fewer self-repairsthan either their partners or controls and fewer filled pauses(‘er’, ‘um’) than controls. Furthermore, the presence of the pa-tient also affects patients’ partners, who use fewer filled pausesthan controls and more unfilled pauses than both patients andcontrols. This suggests that smooth coordination of turns isproblematic in patients’ dialogues","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Disfluency; Dialogue; Schizophrenia"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/03t779cd","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Christine","middle_name":"","last_name":"Howes","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Gothenburg, Sweden","department":""},{"first_name":"Mary","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lavelle","name_suffix":"","institution":"King’s College London","department":""},{"first_name":"Patrick","middle_name":"G. T.","last_name":"Healey","name_suffix":"","institution":"Queen Mary University of London","department":""},{"first_name":"Julian","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hough","name_suffix":"","institution":"Bielefeld University","department":""},{"first_name":"Rose","middle_name":"","last_name":"McCabe","name_suffix":"","institution":"Exeter University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27196/galley/16832/download/"}]}