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

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 18; no. 11; p. e0289484
• Main Authors: Keller, Laura, Viebahn, Malte C., Hervais-Adelman, Alexis, Seeber, Kilian G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco, CA USA Public Library of Science 28.11.2023; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Analysis; Biology and Life Sciences; Computational linguistics; Idioms; Investigations; Language processing; Methods; Multilingualism; Natural language interfaces; Social aspects; Social Sciences; Translating and interpreting; Translators (Persons); Switzerland; United Kingdom; Germany

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-ac...