Relationship between the visuo-spatial cognition and the linguistic domain in Williams syndrome: a case study with verbs of motion
The present research is a pilot study investigating the mastery of verbs of motion in typical acquisition and by a population with cognitive impairment - individuals with Williams Syndrome (WS). Different types of verbs of motion are considered in relation to the semantic primitives motion, manner,...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Associação Brasileira de Linguística (ABRALIN) |
| Repositorio: | Cadernos de Linguística |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs3.cadernos.abralin.org:article/27 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/cadernos/article/view/27 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Verbos de movimento Complexidade estrutural Domínio visuo-espacial Síndrome de Williams-Beuren Motion Verbs Syntactic Complexity Visuo-spatial Domain Williams Syndrome |
| Sumario: | The present research is a pilot study investigating the mastery of verbs of motion in typical acquisition and by a population with cognitive impairment - individuals with Williams Syndrome (WS). Different types of verbs of motion are considered in relation to the semantic primitives motion, manner, and path and their lexicalization in the verbal root (SILVA JÚNIOR, 2015). A comprehension task is applied in which the compatibility between motion events and linguistic sentences are judged. Participants listen to sentences and watch short videos, being asked whether or not the sentences are compatible with the event displayed on the video. Different motion verbs are tested: (i) Motion and manner verbs, (ii) motion and path verbs, (iii) motion, manner and path verbs, and (iv) motion, manner and path verbs with complete path. Participants are fifteen typically developing children, fifteen adults, as a control group, and a 10-year-old WS child, configuring a case study. Results indicate group and verb type effects. Children have greater difficulty with verbs of type (iv). The WS child, who, although older, shows even greater difficulty in this condition, indicating a non-specific linguistic difficulty. |
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