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The role of semantically related gestures in the language comprehension of simultaneous interpreters in noise.
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Language, Cognition & Neuroscience . Jun2024, Vol. 39 Issue 5, p584-608. 25p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Manual co-speech gestures can facilitate language comprehension, especially in adverse listening conditions. However, we do not know whether gestures influence simultaneous interpreters' language comprehension in adverse listening conditions, and if so, whether this influence is modulated by interpreting experience, or by active simultaneous interpreting (SI). We exposed 24 interpreters and 24 bilinguals without interpreting experience to utterances with semantically related gestures, semantically unrelated gestures, or without gestures while engaging in comprehension (interpreters and bilinguals) or in SI (interpreters only). Tasks were administered in clear and noisy speech. Accuracy and reaction time were measured, and participants' gaze was tracked. During comprehension, semantically related gestures facilitated both groups' processing in noise. Facilitation was not modulated by interpreting experience. However, when interpreting noisy speech, interpreters did not benefit from gestures. This suggests that the comprehension component, and specifically crossmodal information processing, in SI differs from that of other language comprehension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *SCALE analysis (Psychology)
*MATHEMATICAL variables
*NOISE
*PREDICTION models
*SPEECH
*TASK performance
*T-test (Statistics)
*DATA analysis
*PHONOLOGICAL awareness
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*CHI-squared test
*MANN Whitney U Test
*HEALTH facility translating services
*MULTILINGUALISM
*BODY language
*STATISTICS
*REACTION time
*EYE movements
*VIDEO recording
*TIME
RESEARCH evaluation
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23273798
- Volume :
- 39
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Language, Cognition & Neuroscience
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 177396191
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2346924