How Language is Embodied in Bilinguals and Children With Specific Language Impairment
This manuscript explores the role of embodied views of language comprehension and production in bilingualism and specific language impairment. Reconceptualizing popular models of bilingual language processing, the embodied theory is first extended to this area. Issues such as semantic grounding in a...
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| description | This manuscript explores the role of embodied views of language comprehension and production in bilingualism and specific language impairment. Reconceptualizing popular models of bilingual language processing, the embodied theory is first extended to this area. Issues such as semantic grounding in a second language and potential differences between early and late acquisition of a second language are discussed. Predictions are made about how this theory informs novel ways of thinking about teaching a second language. Secondly, the comorbidity of speech, language and motor impairments and how embodiment theory informs the discussion of the etiology of these impairments is examined. A hypothesis is presented suggesting that what is often referred to as specific language impairment may not be so specific due to widespread subclinical motor deficits in this population. Predictions are made about how weaknesses and instabilities in speech motor control, even at a subclinical level, may disrupt the neural network that connects acoustic input, articulatory motor plans, and semantics. Finally, I make predictions about how this information informs clinical practice for professionals such as speech language pathologists and occupational and physical therapists. These new hypotheses are placed within the larger framework of the body of work pertaining to semantic grounding, action-based language acquisition, and action-perception links that underlie language learning and conceptual grounding. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fff6f54b6cbc43e681679c28e3db411d2022-12-22T01:02:06ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782016-08-01710.3389/fpsyg.2016.01209211815How Language is Embodied in Bilinguals and Children With Specific Language ImpairmentAshley Marie Adams0Arizona State UniversityThis manuscript explores the role of embodied views of language comprehension and production in bilingualism and specific language impairment. Reconceptualizing popular models of bilingual language processing, the embodied theory is first extended to this area. Issues such as semantic grounding in a second language and potential differences between early and late acquisition of a second language are discussed. Predictions are made about how this theory informs novel ways of thinking about teaching a second language. Secondly, the comorbidity of speech, language and motor impairments and how embodiment theory informs the discussion of the etiology of these impairments is examined. A hypothesis is presented suggesting that what is often referred to as specific language impairment may not be so specific due to widespread subclinical motor deficits in this population. Predictions are made about how weaknesses and instabilities in speech motor control, even at a subclinical level, may disrupt the neural network that connects acoustic input, articulatory motor plans, and semantics. Finally, I make predictions about how this information informs clinical practice for professionals such as speech language pathologists and occupational and physical therapists. These new hypotheses are placed within the larger framework of the body of work pertaining to semantic grounding, action-based language acquisition, and action-perception links that underlie language learning and conceptual grounding.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01209/fullLanguage DisordersMotor CortexbilingualismEmbodied CognitionConceptual representationclinical practice |
| spellingShingle | Ashley Marie Adams How Language is Embodied in Bilinguals and Children With Specific Language Impairment Frontiers in Psychology Language Disorders Motor Cortex bilingualism Embodied Cognition Conceptual representation clinical practice |
| title | How Language is Embodied in Bilinguals and Children With Specific Language Impairment |
| title_full | How Language is Embodied in Bilinguals and Children With Specific Language Impairment |
| title_fullStr | How Language is Embodied in Bilinguals and Children With Specific Language Impairment |
| title_full_unstemmed | How Language is Embodied in Bilinguals and Children With Specific Language Impairment |
| title_short | How Language is Embodied in Bilinguals and Children With Specific Language Impairment |
| title_sort | how language is embodied in bilinguals and children with specific language impairment |
| topic | Language Disorders Motor Cortex bilingualism Embodied Cognition Conceptual representation clinical practice |
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