Does Intonation Matter? The impact of monotony on listener comprehension

Abstract

The study described in this paper aims to investigate whether monotony has a \nnegative impact on audience comprehension. Whereas in previous research \nintonational deviations were produced mainly through voice acting, the present \nstudy employs digital audio editing to produce two versions of one and the same \nsimultaneous interpretation. This method allows the researcher to modify \nintonation leaving other speech parameters unchanged. The material thus \nproduced was validated by a pool of experts and submitted to several randomised \ngroups of listeners in a simulated conference setting. Analysis showed that \nmonotony can have a negative impact on both comprehension and the assessment \nof the interpreter’s performance. These findings have major implications for both \ninterpreting theory and practice.

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