Editing Clanging (section)

== Disagreements in the literature ==
Being a niche area of symptoms of mental disorders, there have been disagreements in the definitions of clanging, and how it may nor may not fall under the subset of Formal Thought Disorder symptoms in schizophrenia. Steuber argues that although it is a FTD, that it should come under the umbrella of the subtype 'distractibility'.{{sfn|Steuber|2011|p={{page needed|date=March 2023}}}}

Moreover, due to limited research there have been discrepancies in the definition of clanging used: an alternative definition for clanging is: "word selection based on phonemic relatedness, rather than semantic meaning; frequently manifest as rhyming". Here it is evident that the semantic association chains are not included as part of the definition seen at the start{{sfn|Steuber|2011|p={{page needed|date=March 2023}}}} – even though it is the more widely used definition of clanging and glossomania (where the terms are used interchangeably).