Word salad

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A person with schizophrenia wrote seemingly random words in a piece of cloth: a word salad.

A word salad is a "confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases",[1] most often used to describe a symptom of a neurological or mental disorder. The name schizophasia is used in particular to describe the confused language that may be evident in schizophrenia.[2] The words may or may not be grammatically correct, but they are semantically confused to the point that the listener cannot extract any meaning from them. The term is often used in psychiatry as well as in theoretical linguistics to describe a type of grammatical acceptability judgement by native speakers.

  1. ^ "Definition of "word salad". Oxford University Press. 2012. Archived from the original on November 4, 2013.
  2. ^ "Medical Definition of SCHIZOPHASIA". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 29 December 2019.