Bilingual memory: lexical processing in simultaneous translation

Аннотация

Bilingual memory is to the extreme processing requires of professional simultaneous interpreters. Bilingualisms completed word production, lexical retrieval, and verbal fluency tasks. Interpreters exhibited rose fluency in their both languages, and they were faster to translate words in two directions. But, no significant differences appeared in picture naming or word reading. This suggests that lexical meaning in interpreters are confined to their specifically trained abilities (vocabulary search, reformulation), with no permanent changes in other word-processing mechanisms. Significantly, these differences seem to affect specifically linguistic effects, as two samples were matched for relevant executive abilities. Additionly, only word translation performance correlated with the years of interpreting experience. For that reason, despite their tight cooperation, dissimilar subcomponents within bilingual memory seem characterized by self-supporting, usage-driven flexibility.