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Parallel processing of the target language during source language comprehension in interpreting*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2013

YANPING DONG  and
JIEXUAN LIN
YANPING DONG*
Affiliation:
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
JIEXUAN LIN
Affiliation:
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
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Address for correspondence: Yanping Dong, National Center of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Baiyun Dadao North 2#, Guangzhou 510420, China[email protected]
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Abstract

Two experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis that the parallel processing of the target language (TL) during source language (SL) comprehension in interpreting may be influenced by two factors: (i) link strength from SL to TL, and (ii) the interpreter's cognitive resources supplement to TL processing during SL comprehension. The influence of the first factor was supported by the contrasting performance on bidirectional SL and TL interpreting tasks by unbalanced bilingual student interpreters, and the second factor was supported by the contrasting performance between participants’ two developmental stages in interpreting. Implications are discussed.

Keywords

parallel processingbilingual processinginterpretingcognitive resourceslink strength
Type
Research Notes
Information
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , July 2013 , pp. 682 - 692
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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Footnotes

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We thank reviewers for detailed comments and insightful suggestions on previous drafts. We also thank Prof. Shen ZOU from Shanghai International Studies University for providing us the 2009 and 2010 national average scores for TEM4 and TEM8 tests, and graduate students from Guangwai Brain and Language Lab for providing assistance in data collection. We are grateful to all the participants and colleagues who helped with the study. This research was supported by grants from the Chinese Ministry of Education (2009JJD740007) and the National Social Science Foundation of China (10BYY010), and the New Century Talents Program by the Chinese Ministry of Education.

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