It's not a full-blown language like american sign-language or langue des signes quebecoise but it's a language nonetheless, with words and syntax and phonology.

这种语言并不像美国手语,或加拿大魁北克手语那样成熟,尽管如此,这种语言依然拥有词,语法和语音

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But even some of them who'd learned language and who managed to get some sort of independent life, nevertheless will suffer from a severe social impairment.

但即便有些孤独症儿童掌握了语言,并且能够过上某种独立的生活,但却依然会受到严重社会障碍的困扰

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