Gómez-Merino Nadina, Fajardo Inmaculada, Ferrer Antonio, Arfé Barbara
Reading Research Unit, Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Valencia and.
Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation, University of Padova.
J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ. 2020 May 30;25(3):351-364. doi: 10.1093/deafed/enaa005.
Twenty participants who were deaf and 20 chronological age-matched participants with typical hearing (TH) (mean age: 12 years) were asked to judge the correctness of written sentences with or without a grammatically incongruent word while their eye movements were registered. TH participants outperformed deaf participants in grammaticality judgment accuracy. For both groups, First Pass and Total Fixation Times of target words in correct trials were significantly longer in the incongruent condition than in the congruent one. However, whereas TH students showed longer First Pass in the target area than deaf students across congruity conditions, deaf students made more fixations than their TH controls. Syntactic skills, vocabulary, and word reading speeds (measured with additional tests) were significantly lower in deaf students but only syntactic skills were systematically associated to the time-course of congruity processing. These results suggest that syntactic skills could have a cascading effect in sentence processing for deaf readers.
20名失聪参与者和20名年龄匹配的听力正常（TH）参与者（平均年龄：12岁）被要求在记录其眼动的同时判断含有或不含有语法不一致单词的书面句子的正确性。在语法判断准确性方面，听力正常的参与者表现优于失聪参与者。对于两组参与者而言，在正确试验中，目标单词在不一致条件下的首次注视时间和总注视时间均显著长于一致条件下的时间。然而，尽管在一致性条件下，听力正常的学生在目标区域的首次注视时间比失聪学生更长，但失聪学生的注视次数比听力正常的对照组更多。失聪学生的句法技能、词汇量和单词阅读速度（通过额外测试测量）显著更低，但只有句法技能与一致性处理的时间进程存在系统性关联。这些结果表明，句法技能可能对失聪读者的句子处理产生连锁效应。
