<TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Profiling Autism Through Language</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Lexicogrammar, neurocognition, and machine learning</Subtitle>

32032195 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code Z 246 Eb 15 9789027243195 06 10.1075/z.246 DG 002 02 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Profiling Autism Through Language</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Lexicogrammar, neurocognition, and machine learning</Subtitle> 01 z.246 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/z.246 1 A01 Sumi Kato Kato, Sumi Sumi Kato Aomori Chuo Gakuin University 01 eng 270 viii 260 + index LAN009040 v.2006 CFD 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.COGN Cognition and language 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.NEURO Neurolinguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PSYLIN Psycholinguistics 06 01 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 Linguistics with machine learning, it identifies 46 lexicogrammatical features that reliably distinguish ASD from non-ASD discourse, with 80% classification accuracy. Each discriminator is interpreted across twelve cognitive-functional domains, including weak central coherence, joint attention, predictive processing, executive function, and working memory, showing precisely how grammatical choices encode neurocognitive profiles. Analyses span a broad range of lexicogrammatical categories, including clause complexes, process types, appraisal, modality, evidentiality, negotiating particles, and sound-symbolic expression. The result is the first book-length, empirically grounded account of lexicogrammatical variability in ASD, with direct implications for diagnostic assessment and language intervention. Essential reading for researchers and clinicians in autism studies, human neuroscience, clinical linguistics, and neurodevelopmental disorders. 46 01 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 47 Open access -- this title is available under a CC BY-NC-ND license. For full details, see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/z.246.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027237859.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027237859.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/z.246.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/z.246.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/z.246.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/z.246.hb.png 10 01 JB code z.246.prelim i iv 4 Prelim pages 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Prelim pages</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.246.toc v vi 2 Table of contents 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Table of contents</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.246.abb vii viii 2 Glossary 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">List of abbreviations</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.246.p1 Section header 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part I. Foundation</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.246.c1 2 8 7 Chapter 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 1. Introduction</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.246.c2 9 25 17 Chapter 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 2. Construction of the spoken language corpus of ASD and non-ASD</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.246.c3 26 49 24 Chapter 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 3. Development of a diagnostic AI-based assessment system using lexicogrammatical features</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.246.c4 50 54 5 Chapter 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 4. Identifying lexicogrammatical discriminators of ASD</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.246.p2 55 1 Section header 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part II. Lexicogrammatical profiles and cognitive patterns in ASD</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.246.c5 56 75 20 Chapter 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 5. Rankshift avoidance and structural simplification in ASD</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">MLU, lexical density, and the role of working memory</Subtitle> 10 01 JB code z.246.c6 76 100 25 Chapter 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 6. Discriminators of inferential ability</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.246.c7 101 117 17 Chapter 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 7. Mental space construction and decoupling-related interpretation in ASD</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.246.c8 118 135 18 Chapter 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 8. Negotiating particles as discriminators of joint attention and context integration in ASD</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.246.c9 136 160 25 Chapter 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 9. Existential and benefactive constructions as linguistic windows into self–other differentiation and agency</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.246.c10 161 167 7 Chapter 15 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 10. Parallel clauses as discriminators of repetitive and restricted behaviors</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.246.c11 168 173 6 Chapter 16 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 11. Relational attributive processes</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Cognitive constraints on generalization and abstraction</Subtitle> 10 01 JB code z.246.c12 174 177 4 Chapter 17 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 12. Reduced modulation</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Obligation markers in ASD discourse</Subtitle> 10 01 JB code z.246.c13 178 185 8 Chapter 18 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 13. Cognitive constraints on auxiliary verbs of unintended outcome and exploratory trial in ASD</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.246.c14 186 202 17 Chapter 19 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 14. Evaluative language as a discriminator of socio-cognitive processing in ASD</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.246.c15 203 208 6 Chapter 20 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 15. Reduced sound-symbolic expression</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Cognitive profiles affecting onomatopoeia</Subtitle> 10 01 JB code z.246.p3 209 1 Section header 21 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part III. Implications</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.246.c16 210 216 7 Chapter 22 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 16. Conclusion</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.246.refs 217 235 19 References 23 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">References</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.246.app1 236 252 17 Appendix 24 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Appendix</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.246.glo 253 260 8 Chapter 25 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Glossary of key terms</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 02 December 2026 20261215 2026 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027237859 01 JB 3 John Benjamins e-Platform 03 jbe-platform.com 09 WORLD 10 20261215 01 774032194 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code Z 246 Hb 15 9789027237859 BB <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Profiling Autism Through Language</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Lexicogrammar, neurocognition, and machine learning</Subtitle> 01 z.246 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/z.246 1 A01 Sumi Kato Kato, Sumi Sumi Kato Aomori Chuo Gakuin University 01 eng 270 viii 260 + index LAN009040 v.2006 CFD 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.COGN Cognition and language 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.NEURO Neurolinguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PSYLIN Psycholinguistics 06 01 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 Linguistics with machine learning, it identifies 46 lexicogrammatical features that reliably distinguish ASD from non-ASD discourse, with 80% classification accuracy. Each discriminator is interpreted across twelve cognitive-functional domains, including weak central coherence, joint attention, predictive processing, executive function, and working memory, showing precisely how grammatical choices encode neurocognitive profiles. Analyses span a broad range of lexicogrammatical categories, including clause complexes, process types, appraisal, modality, evidentiality, negotiating particles, and sound-symbolic expression. The result is the first book-length, empirically grounded account of lexicogrammatical variability in ASD, with direct implications for diagnostic assessment and language intervention. 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