Does Early Bilingual Acquisition Affect Hemispheric Preferences during Simultaneous Interpretation

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ID10607478
AuthorsJosiane F Hamers (Laval University, Québec, Canada), Sylvie Lemieux (Laval University, Québec, Canada), Sylvie Lambert (0000-0001-6135-2614, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada)
Year2004
Volume47
Issue4
Pages586-595
Publication date2004-08-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMeta Journal des traducteurs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0026-0452 • E-ISSN: 1492-1421
PublisherConsortium Erudit (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.7202/008038ar
OpenAlexW2024765413
LanguageEN
References cited11

Based on data from an earlier study (Lambert 1993), and on a propositional approach developed by Lemieux (1995), who refined quality of interpretation measurements sufficiently to determine a right-ear superiority at the beginning of a message and a left-ear superiority at the end of a message, the present study went one step further to examine the role played by experience, age and age of bilinguality, all possible factors influencing the hemispheric control of interpretation. Results indicated that the number of years of experience influences the quality of interpretation in that the more experienced interpreters interpreted better, regardless of ear of input. But overall results point to the possibility that hemispheric preferences for linguistic analysis might be much more under an interpreter’s voluntary control than first anticipated

Affect (linguistics) · Audiology · Cognitive psychology · Control (management) · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Interpreter · Language interpretation · Linguistics · Point (geometry) · Quality (philosophy) · Artificial Intelligence · Communication · Computer Science · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Mathematics · Medicine · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Social Psychology

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