THE GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF DENGUE FEVER AND THE POTENTIAL INFLUENCE OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE

Abstract

Language processing is influenced by multiple sources of information. We examined with a total of 79 bilingual undergraduates and 12 native speakers of German, whether the performance in simultaneous interpreting would be improved when providing two sources of information, the auditory speech as well as corresponding lip-movements, in comparison to presenting the auditory speech alone. Although there was an improvement in sentence recognition when presented with visible speech, there was no difference in performance between these two presentation conditions when bilinguals simultaneously interpreted from English to German or from English to Spanish. The reason why visual speech did not contribute to performance could be the presentation of the auditory signal without noise (Massaro, 1998). This hypothesis should be tested in the future. Furthermore, it should be investigated if an effect of visible speech can be found for other contexts, when visual information could provide cues for emotions, prosody, or syntax. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2003 APA, all rights reserved).