Syntactic Simplification

A form of text simplification that restructures complex sentences into simpler grammatical forms, such as splitting compound sentences, converting passive voice to active voice, or resolving relative clauses. Syntactic simplification reduces the cognitive load of parsing sentence structure and can benefit readers with dyslexia, intellectual disabilities, or language processing difficulties. Research with deaf and hard of hearing users has found that syntactic simplification can be useful but may also introduce rereading behaviors as readers compare simplified and original versions.