The role of manual gestures in second language comprehension: a simultaneous interpreting experiment.

ABSTRACT: Manual gestures and speech form a single integrated system during native language comprehension. However, it remains unclear whether this hold for second language (L2) comprehension, more specifically for simultaneous interpreting (SI), which involves comprehension in one language and simultaneous production in another. In a combined mismatch and priming paradigm, we presented Swedish speakers fluent in L2 English with multimodal stimuli in which speech was congruent or incongruent with a gesture. A picture prime was displayed before the stimuli. Participants had to decide whether the video was related to the prime, focusing either on the auditory or the visual information. Participants performed the task either during passive viewing or during SI into their L1 Swedish (order counterbalanc

SUBMITTER: Arbona E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10333536 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature