Simultaneous interpreting experience enhances semantic prediction in Turkish
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21584019 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ena Hodzik (0000-0001-5174-5596, Hacettepe University), Deniz Özkan (0000-0002-3411-5629, Tohoku University), Ebru Diriker (0000-0002-9619-6735, Renmin University of China) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 627-655 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Target International Journal of Translation Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0924-1884 • E-ISSN: 1569-9986 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/target.23141.hod |
| OpenAlex | W4413272974 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 57 |
This study investigates prediction based on verb semantics in a Turkish monolingual comprehension task in professional and student Turkish (A)–English (B) interpreters. Predictive eye movements were compared between the two groups to examine potential differences in the size of the semantic prediction effect. In addition, the participants’ working memory capacity was measured to see whether working memory facilitates prediction and whether this facilitatory effect differs between the two groups. We found a stronger semantic prediction effect in professional than student interpreters. Moreover, student interpreters with higher working memory capacity showed a stronger semantic prediction effect than students with lower working memory capacity. No such difference was observed for professionals. Our findings suggest that professional interpreters do not need to use additional resources to predict meaning, unlike students. Together with previous findings, we observe an interpreting experience related advantage for prediction in non-interpreting tasks irrespective of type of predictive cue under investigation
Linguistics · Turkish · Computer Science · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Philosophy
Basic Concepts and Models for Interpreter and Translator Training
Individual differences in working memory and processing speed predict anticipatory spoken language processing in the visual world
The control of eye fixation by the meaning of spoken language
Anticipating Upcoming Words in Discourse
Integration of Visual and Linguistic Information in Spoken Language Comprehension
Memory and language skills in simultaneous interpreters
An automated version of the operation span task
What do we mean by prediction in language comprehension?
Computational principles of working memory in sentence comprehension
Analyzing ‘visual world’ eyetracking data using multilevel logistic regression
The time-course of prediction in incremental sentence processing
Knowing a lot for one’s age
Probabilistic word pre-activation during language comprehension inferred from electrical brain activity
Random effects structure for confirmatory hypothesis testing
Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4
Effects of simultaneous interpreting experience and training on anticipation, as measured by word-translation latencies
Prediction during simultaneous interpreting
Equivalence Tests
Effect of language proficiency and degree of formal training in simultaneous interpreting on working memory and interpreting performance
Verb-based prediction during language processing
Interpreting experience and working memory effects on L1 and L2 morphological prediction
Simultaneous interpreting experience enhances the use of case markers for prediction in Turkish
Student interpreters predict meaning while simultaneously interpreting - even before training
Predictive processes during simultaneous interpreting from German into English
When two languages are competing
Meta-analyses of simultaneous interpreting and working memory
Integration of Syntactic and Semantic Information in Predictive Processing
The role of proficiency and working memory in gender and number agreement processing in L1 and L2 Spanish
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |