Purposeful listening in challenging conditions: A study of prediction during consecutive interpreting in noise.

ABSTRACT: Prediction is often used during language comprehension. However, studies of prediction have tended to focus on L1 listeners in quiet conditions. Thus, it is unclear how listeners predict outside the laboratory and in specific communicative settings. Here, we report two eye-tracking studies which used a visual-world paradigm to investigate whether prediction during a consecutive interpreting task differs from prediction during a listening task in L2 listeners, and whether L2 listeners are able to predict in the noisy conditions that might be associated with this communicative setting. In a first study, thirty-six Dutch-English bilinguals either just listened to, or else listened to and then consecutively interpreted, predictable sentences presented on speech-shaped sound. In a second study,

SUBMITTER: Amos RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10359016 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature