Fluency, comprehensibility, and accentedness are considered importantparameters of interpreting quality but have rarely been studiedsystematically in training programs of interpreting. Therefore,... Show moreFluency, comprehensibility, and accentedness are considered importantparameters of interpreting quality but have rarely been studiedsystematically in training programs of interpreting. Therefore, the presentstudy was set up to investigate the effect of fluency training on speechfluency, comprehensibility, and accentedness of interpreter trainees. Twogroups of interpreter trainees at a university in Iran took part in the study,receiving the same amount of instruction and practice (12 hours over 4weeks). The experimental group (N=30) spent 33% of the time (i.e., 4 of the12 hours in the training program) on dedicated fluency strategy training,encouraging the memorization, repetition, and retelling of audio and videomaterials. The remaining 67% was spent on training general speaking skills.The control group (N=30) were only taught general speaking skills in thetraining program but received no dedicated fluency training. Systematicinterviews were run to assess the interpreter trainees’ speech fluency,comprehensibility and accentedness, which were judged independently bythree expert raters at three moments of testing, i.e., pretest, immediateposttest, and delayed posttest (one month later). The findings revealed thatthe fluency training significantly enhanced the interpreter trainees’ fluency,and to a lesser extent the students’ comprehensibility but had only amarginal effect on accentedness. The pedagogical implication would be thatawareness training on speech fluency Show less
Dit artikel gaat na of taal- en cognitiewetenschap kan helpen bij de vorming van een objectievere en betrouwbaardere vaststelling van de mate van overeenstemming tussen tekens in het merkenrecht.... Show moreDit artikel gaat na of taal- en cognitiewetenschap kan helpen bij de vorming van een objectievere en betrouwbaardere vaststelling van de mate van overeenstemming tussen tekens in het merkenrecht. In hoeverre snijden de uitgangspunten en rechtsregels die worden gehanteerd in de rechtspraak, bekeken vanuit de wetenschap, hout? Is het wetenschappelijk te onderbouwen dat consumenten meer letten op overeenstemming dan op verschillen, en is het juist dat consumenten meer letten op het begin van woorden dan op het einde? Vervolgens wordt een relatief objectief kader voorgesteld voor het vaststellen van de mate van overeenstemminng tussen merknamen (en woorden in het algemeen). Google Translate: This article examines whether linguistic and cognitive science can help form a more objective and reliable determination of the degree of similarity between signs in trademark law. To what extent are the principles and legal rules used in case law valid, viewed from a scientific perspective? Can it be scientifically substantiated that consumers pay more attention to similarities than to differences, and is it correct that consumers pay more attention to the beginning of words than to the end? A relatively objective framework is then proposed for determining the degree of similarity between brand names (and words in general). Show less
This article reflects on the current training in machine translation and post-editing that students enrolled in the Master Translation at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics are receiving by... Show moreThis article reflects on the current training in machine translation and post-editing that students enrolled in the Master Translation at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics are receiving by discussing the findings of three recent studies. Especially at the master’s level, machine translation and post-editing are becoming increasingly important in translator training curricula with an eye to changing workflows in the language industry. Yet one question that remains is which specific skills, competences and knowledge future translators need, and to what degree an understanding of the computational side of machine translation is required. Show less
