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Verbosity
About: Verbosity is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 80 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1402 citations.
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TL;DR: Higher nonverbal intellectual performance scores obtained in the early adult years combined with poorer current nonverbal scores predicted verbosity in late life, similar to previously found associations between verbosity and personality and social variables.
Abstract: Two studies were conducted to develop measures of verbosity in elderly people and to determine the social and psychological correlates of verbose speech. In the first study, 346 elderly people were classified into three categories of verbosity on the basis of their verbal behavior during an interview and questionnaire session. Personality variables, stress in daily living, and age differentiated extremely verbose individuals from others. In the second study, frequency and extent of off-target speech were rated quantitatively for the verbal behavior of 203 older men, with a second rater independently making the same ratings for 98 of the men. Classification into the three categories of verbosity was made for 179 of the men. Interrater reliability was established at .76 and .70 for the two measures of verbosity. There was significant agreement between the qualitative classification and the quantitative rating assessments of verbosity. In addition to the previously found associations between verbosity and personality and social variables, higher nonverbal intellectual performance scores obtained in the early adult years combined with poorer current nonverbal scores predicted verbosity in late life.
79 citations
TL;DR: This book contains some interesting topics that are not contained in the majority of text on the subject, but readers of this journal who have a science background may find the book a tedious read because of the verbosity of the sociological jargon.
Abstract: Edited by Paul Dimeo. . Published by Routledge, UK, 2007, pp 153, £80 (hardback), £23.99 (paperback). ISBN 978-0-415-35772-2
It is timely for the author and of interest for early readers that this book was published during the 2007 Tour de Farce (sorry, France). Paul Dimeo, who became interested in drug misuse in sport in 2002, uses his background as a sports sociologist to discuss a century of this topic, commencing in 1876 and extending beyond performance enhancing drugs to early social drugs. This book contains some interesting topics that are not contained in the majority of text on the subject. But readers of this journal who have a science background may find the book a tedious read because of the verbosity of the sociological jargon.
Oddly, Dimeo could find no heroes, only villains—even among those who pioneered the fight against drugs in sport. This …
59 citations
TL;DR: It is hypothesized that a reduction in processing capacity may underlie the decreased syntactic complexity, decreased verbal output, and increased pause length found in schizophrenia.
Abstract: We explored the relationships between information processing and language in order to further the understanding of language disturbances in psychiatric patients. To assess the impact of reduced processing capacity on language, 50 undergraduates completed an interview concurrent with a category monitoring task and a control interview without a concurrent task. Syntactic complexity, verbosity, and pause patterns were all disrupted by a reduction in processing capacity. In addition, individual differences in syntactic complexity and information processing were significantly associated, even after accounting for verbal intelligence. We discuss the relevance of the results for understanding language disturbances in psychopathology and hypothesize that a reduction in processing capacity may underlie the decreased syntactic complexity, decreased verbal output, and increased pause length found in schizophrenia.
45 citations
TL;DR: Ten children with a history of prematurity and respiratory distress syndrome were matched with 10 full-term controls on the single-word stage of language and control subjects demonstrated superior performance on all receptive language and child verbosity measures despite their younger age.
Abstract: Ten children with a history of prematurity and respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) were matched with 10 full-term controls on the single-word stage of language. Eleven dependent variables probed for qualitative differences between the groups. Measures of receptive language were based on two assessment procedures specifically designed for this study. Expressive language measures were taken from a parent-elicited language sample. Control subjects demonstrated superior performance on all receptive language and child verbosity measures despite their younger age.
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