Felletár, Fanni and Gosztolya, Gábor and Yang, Zijian Győző and Hoffmann, Ildikó and Babarczy, Anna and Unoka, Zsolt (2025) Associations between coherence and temporal parameters of narrative speech production in borderline personality disorder. JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH, 188. pp. 218-228. ISSN 0022-3956
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Abstract
Narrative speech production (NSP), i.e., the conceptualization, linguistic formulation, and articulation of a story, is a multifaceted process underpinned by cognitive functions and mentalization ability, often impaired in individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD). This study examines differences in coherence and temporal parameters between individuals with BPD and healthy controls (HCs) and explores associations between these factors in both groups. Spontaneous speech of 33 BPD and 31 HC individuals was recorded in three task types (telling their previous day, retelling a story, picture sequences), tapping different cognitive functions. Local and global coherence were extracted with contextual sentence vectors, while temporal parameters were extracted with automatic speech recognition. A series of linear mixed-effects models revealed that NSP of individuals with BPD is mainly characterized by significantly lower global coherence and speech rate and higher number of silent and filled pauses than HCs’. Global coherence displayed significant between-group differences only in picture tasks and correlated with picture arrangement. Spearman correlation matrix showed a significant negative association between global coherence and speech rate within the BPD group and an opposite tendency among HCs. Findings indicate that individuals with BPD might benefit from speaking at a slower pace to improve global coherence in their narratives.
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| Additional Information: | Funding Agency and Grant Number: Ministry of Culture and Innovation of Hungary from the National Research, Development and Innovation (NRDI) Fund [TKP2021-NVA]; Hungarian Academy of Sciences; NRDI Office of the Hungarian Ministry of Innovation and Technology [TKP2021-NVA-09, RRF-2.3.1-21-2022-00004] Funding text: The research was implemented with the support provided by the Ministry of Culture and Innovation of Hungary from the National Research, Development and Innovation (NRDI) Fund, financed under the TKP2021-NVA funding scheme. Fanni Felleta<acute accent>r's research was funded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Ga<acute accent>bor Gosztolya was supported by the NRDI Office of the Hungarian Ministry of Innovation and Technology (grant no. TKP2021-NVA-09) , and within the framework of the Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory Program (RRF-2.3.1-21-2022-00004) . |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | COHERENCE; borderline personality disorder; SPEECH PRODUCTION; natural language processing; Speech rate; pauses; NARRATIVE SPEECH; |
| Subjects: | R Medicine / orvostudomány > RC Internal medicine / belgyógyászat > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry / idegkórtan, neurológia, pszichiátria |
| SWORD Depositor: | MTMT SWORD |
| Depositing User: | MTMT SWORD |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Feb 2026 15:01 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Feb 2026 15:01 |
| URI: | https://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/233303 |
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