Sumi Kato

List of John Benjamins publications in which Sumi Kato is involved.

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Profiling Autism Through Language: Lexicogrammar, neurocognition, and machine learning

Sumi Kato

Existing accounts of language in autism have tended to focus on English and have rarely progressed beyond broad characterizations of pragmatic difficulty. This volume changes both. Drawing on a clinically defined corpus of Japanese-speaking adults with ASD and combining Systemic Functional… read more

[Not in series, 246] 2026. viii, 260 pp. + index | open access

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Kato, Sumi 2021 Chapter 5. The cognitive and linguistic reasoning process of the speaker’s choice of modal expressions: Modality from the perspective of pragmatic impairment Japanese Mood and Modality in Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theory and Application, Kadooka, Ken-Ichi (ed.), pp. 133–176 | Chapter

The inability to use modality appropriately observed in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is generally viewed as pragmatic impairment. This current study explores the divergent modal usage of ASD individuals, viewing it as a pragmatic impairment to be examined from neurological,… read more