Year: 2015
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Cognitive load is a major source of processing difficulties and disfluencies, such as uh or uhm, in both spontaneous speech (Levelt 1983;Clark & Fox Tree 2002; Bortfelt et al. 2001;Watanabe et al. 2008) and interpreting (Goldman-Eisler 1967;Mead 2000, Tissi 2000;Cecot 2001).Gile (1995) lists the interpreter's lack over the content and his reduced background knowledge as potential obstacles during interpreting, and for simultaneous interpreting he adds the lack of control over the original speech rate as well as the interference of speaking and listening.In Plevoets & Defrancq (2014) and Plevoets & Defrancq (submitted), the occurrence rate of uh(m) was analysed with respect to the delivery rate, the lexical density and the proportion of numbers in both interpretations and in noninterpreted speeches.An interesting qualitative finding was that some uh(m)'s occurred between the elements of lexical compounds, e.g.onderzoeks-uh-gelden ('research-uh-funds'), voedsel-uhmiddelen ('food-uh-resources'), uit-uh-breiden ('ex-uh-pand') or Cohn-uh-Bendit.As such constructions can shed more light on cognitive load, this paper will investigate them further.
Authors: Koen Plevoets, Bart Defrancq
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2247137330