Unpacking the multilingualism continuum: An investigation of language variety co-activation in simultaneous interpreters.

ABSTRACT: This study examines the phonological co-activation of a task-irrelevant language variety in mono- and bivarietal speakers of German with and without simultaneous interpreting (SI) experience during German comprehension and production. Assuming that language varieties in bivarietal speakers are co-activated analogously to the co-activation observed in bilinguals, the hypothesis was tested in the Visual World paradigm. Bivarietalism and SI experience were expected to affect co-activation, as bivarietalism requires communication-context based language-variety selection, while SI hinges on concurrent comprehension and production in two languages; task type was not expected to affect co-activation as previous evidence suggests the phenomenon occurs during comprehension and production. Sixty-fou

SUBMITTER: Keller L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10684095 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature