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1、PersonalityandIndividualDierences28(2000)355±365www.elsevier.com/locate/paidPersonalityandspeechproduction:apilotstudyofsecondlanguagelearnersa,bJean-MarcDewaele*,AdrianFurnhamaDepartmentofFrench,BirkbeckCollege,UniversityofLondon,43GordonSquare,London,WC1H0PD,U
2、KbDepartmentofPsychology,UniversityCollegeLondon,UniversityofLondon,London,UKReceived10July1998;receivedinrevisedform5March1999;accepted26March1999AbstractPersonalitytraits,andextraversioninparticular,haslongbeenunjustlyneglectedinappliedlinguistics.Somecognitiv
3、eandphysiologicalcharacteristicsassociatedwithextraversion,suchassuperiorshort-termmemoryandbetterresistancetostress,canexplaininterindividualvariationinspeechproduction.WorkingwithinthetheoreticalframeworkofLevelt[Levelt,W.J.M.(1989).Speaking.Fromintentiontoart
4、iculation.Cambridge,MA±London:ACL-MITPress.]anddeBot[deBot,K.(1992).Abilingualproductionmodel.Levelt's`speaking'modeladapted.AppliedLinguistics,13(1),1±24.],weanalysedtheFrenchoralinterlanguageof25FlemishuniversitystudentsandrelatedthistotheirEPIscores.Correlati
5、onalanalysesbetweenextraversionscoresand6linguisticvariablesre¯ecting¯uencyandaccuracyrevealedthatextravertbilingualsaremore¯uentthanintrovertbilinguals,especiallyininterpersonalstressfulsituations.Dierenthypothesesarepresentedtoexplainthisphenomenon.#1999Elsevi
6、erScienceLtd.Allrightsreserved.1.IntroductionRelativelyfewstudieshaveexaminedtheeectofpersonalityonspontaneousspeechproduction(Carell,Prince&Astika,1996).Furnham(1990)describestheexistingliteratureontherelationshipbetweenpersonality/cognitivestyleandlanguagemeas
7、uresasunsatisfactoryandfrustratingbecauseofanabsenceof``parsimonious,consistent,fruitfultheoriesdescribedspeci®callyfor,orderivedfrom,thepersonalitymarkersofspeech(...)the`theories'thatdoexistarefrequentlyataninappropriatelevelÐtoomolecularinthattheydealspeci®ca
8、llywith*Correspondingauthor.Tel.:+44-171-631-6170;fax:+44-171-383-3729.E-mailaddress:j.dewaele@bbk.ac.uk(J.M.Dewaele)0191-8869/99/$-seefrontmatter#1999ElsevierScience