The Effect of Juncture on Accurate Interpretation
Omer A. Shihab
Tikrit University , College of Arts, Department of Translation
Israa B. Abdurrahman
Tikrit University, College of Education for Women
Rand K. Abdurrahman
Tikrit University, College of Arts, Department of Translation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.2.4.2
Keywords: -Juncture -Translation -Interpretation -Aspiration -vowel length
Abstract
This study tackles a new aspect that relates phonology and interpretation. It indicates that juncture may cause misunderstanding and therefore mistranslation. The significant problem is in relation to interpretation as it may not be accurate because the translators do not have good knowledge of certain phonological phenomena, and this causes phonological ambiguity leading to wrong translation. Thus, the translator cannot catch the idea of the utterance. The study depends on real test that is applied to students of fourth year in Tikrit university/ college of Arts/ Translation Department, to investigate the percentage of mistakes of
