Automatic Imitation or Poor First-Language Inhibition? Why Foreign-Accentedness Increases during Interpreting
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angličtina
Original language name
Automatic Imitation or Poor First-Language Inhibition? Why Foreign-Accentedness Increases during Interpreting
Original language description
Interpreters often listen to their native language (L1) and immediately speak in their second language (L2). In a pilot experiment with twenty-two Czech students of interpreting from and into English, we showed that the Voice Onset Time (VOT) of their English /t/s gradually became more Czech-like (i.e., shorter) only when they responded in English to Czech auditory prompts and not when they responded in English to English prompts or when they spoke without hearing any prompts. We propose a methodology that will test what contributes to this effect: (i) impoverished inhibition of the L1 phonological system (they reduced the VOT of L2-English /t/ because their L1-Czech /t/ category was not effectively inhibited immediately after hearing Czech speech), or(ii) automatic imitation of pronunciation properties of recently heard speech (they reduced VOT of /t/ because the recently heard [t] tokens, whatever the language, had had short VOTs).
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
AI - Linguistics
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/EE2.3.20.0061" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0061: Language Diversity and Communication</a><br>
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P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
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Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Article name in the collection
Tradition and Trends in Trans-Language Communication
ISBN
978-80-244-4079-8
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Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
183-194
Publisher name
Palacký University
Place of publication
Olomouc
Event location
Olomouc
Event date
Nov 10, 2012
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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