Abstract: Inhibition plays an important role in language comprehension. In this article, first, the concept and the categories of inhibition were briefly introduced. And then three theories of inhibition were described: the Construction-Integration Model, the Structure Framework Building, and the Inhibition and Contents of Working Memory. Finally, three kinds of studies on inhibition were introduced. They are the inhibition for unrelated or inappropriate information from the interior of language, the inhibition for unrelated information from the exterior of language, and the inhibition on the procedure of cross-model language comprehension.

Key words: language comprehension, inhibition, activation, interference.