The cognitive and neural mechanisms of sentence processing in deaf and hard of hearing readers
Sentence processing is a core issue for deaf and hard of hearing readers in language comprehen-sion,and the role of syntactic and semantic information in language understanding among deaf readers have attracted researchers'attention.Some studies have found that deaf readers can complete the comprehension of sentences only by relying on semantic information.Some studies have also found that deaf readers rely on both semantic and syntactic information when processing sentences.Although the se-mantic processing mechanisms of deaf and hard of hearing readers are similar,there may be fundamental differences in their syntactic processing mechanisms.Future research should focus on how deaf readers process semantic and syntactic information while reading Chinese sentences,continue to explore the cogni-tive and neural mechanisms of sentence processing in deaf readers,and then construct theoretical models of sentence processing for deaf and hard of hearing readers.
deaf and hard of hearingsentence processingsemantic informationsyntactic information