Embodied Cognition in Morphosyntactic Processing and Severity of Autism
Keywords:
ASD, severe autism, mild autism, morphosyntactic processing, embodimentAbstract
Autism affects a child’s linguistic abilities; however, it is the severity or mildness of the symptoms that determine the effects on the child’s communication skills. Foregrounding theory of cognitive semantics that accounts for embodied cognition in a collective case study six children were interviewed. Three of them show symptoms of mild to moderate autism and three severe autisms. We analyzed the data focusing on morphosyntactic patterns and embodied cognition. The nouns and verbs were frequent, however, children with mild autism used them at a higher frequency than children with severe autism. Children with severe autism avoided the use of adverbs and adjectives. Syntactically the language of children with severe autism was simpler than that of children with mild autism. The findings of the study suggest that there is a difference in the morphosyntactic patterns of children with severe and mild autism, which is a direct result of their varied embodiment.
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