Thirty non-syntactic stylostatistical measures of language performance were used , in an attempt to differentiate psychiatric patients. Only 5 of these measures showed discriminatory ability; schizophrenics reliably displayed longer words and more variability in word length and neurotics showed a paucity of usage vocabulary size.
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