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Syllabic ‘Strategies’ in Written Language

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LANGUAGE, whether written or spoken, is one of the most sensitive indices of central nervous disorder; in a variety of neuropsychiatric states the speech and writing of the patient may be the main physical manifestation of disease. A technique of language analysis has been evolved with clinical needs in mind; but an attempt has also been made to provide a neurophysiological working hypothesis to account for the main empirical findings of the method.

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    H. B. G. THOMAS

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THOMAS, H. Syllabic ‘Strategies’ in Written Language. Nature 185, 485–486 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185485a0

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