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  • Linguistics
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Deaf Studies

Background:

  • Written language comprehension in deaf individuals presents unique challenges.
  • Understanding how deaf readers process syntactic-semantic conflicts is crucial for educational and therapeutic interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the sentence comprehension strategies and processing patterns of Chinese deaf individuals.
  • To examine how deaf readers handle syntactic-semantic cue conflicts in written Chinese.

Main Methods:

  • Combined sentence plausibility judgment and self-paced reading tasks.
  • Assessed reading times and comprehension strategies in Chinese deaf participants.

Main Results:

  • Significant variability in comprehension strategies observed, with only 38% consistently using syntactic cues.
  • Deaf readers showed increased processing effort (longer reading times) at verb regions when relying on syntactic cues.
  • Sensitivity to syntactic cues was evident even when semantic cues were prioritized, indicated by prolonged reading times.

Conclusions:

  • Deaf readers generally experience a higher processing burden when resolving syntactic-semantic conflicts.
  • A strong reliance on semantic information may contribute to this increased processing burden.
  • This processing burden could lead to an over-reliance on semantic cues in conflict situations.