Educators and policy makers have increasingly recognized the importance of computational
thinking (CT). Despite the growing body of CT literature, how to cultivate CT is still …

In a science of language, it can be useful to partition different formats of linguistic information
into different categories, such as phonetics, phonology, semantics, and syntax. However …

Why you are more than just a brain, more than just a brain-and-body, and more than all your
assumptions about who you are. Who are you? Are you just a brain? A brain and a body? All …

Attempting to understand children's figurative language acquisition/development has been
an ongoing effort for decades from a variety of approaches and on a range of figures. Goals …

Metaphor comprehension was studied in three groups of children from 6 to 12 years old: a
group with autism spectrum disorder with level 2 severity (ASD, n= 22) and two comparison …

In the current study of applied cognitive linguistics (CL), schematic diagrams that represent
generalizations of physical-spatial experience were applied in a computer-based tutor that …

In this dissertation, I investigate the role of the body as a critical part of linguistic
meaningmaking, taking a cognitive and usage-based approach to language. These …

Embodiment of action-related language into the motor system has been extensively
documented. Yet the case of sensory words, especially referring to touch, remains …

It has been argued that people construct situation models during text reception and that
these are analogous, multimodal representations of text grounded in perception and action …

Based on an embodied account of language comprehension, this study investigated the
dynamic characteristics of children and adults' perceptual simulations during sentence …