Translation, Interpreting, and the Bilingual Brain

Diamond, Bruce J.; Shreve, Gregory M.

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“…More precisely, at the psycholinguistic level, comprehension and production tasks are performed with an extremely short 'ear-to-voice span', meaning that the target speech has to be uttered shortly after hearing the source speech (within a few seconds) (see Christoffels, 2004;Seeber, 2011). Such an overlap between comprehension and production results in a severe competition for common linguistic, memory and executive control resources (Diamond & Shreve, 2019;Seeber, 2011), which produces processing interference. Because of this, the SI task incurs a heavy cognitive load (see Tommola & Hyönä, 1990 for pupillometric evidence) which can be conceived of as the total mental activity imposed on working memory at a given time during performance of a task (Sweller, 1988).…”

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Processing manner under high cognitive pressure: Evidence from French–English and English–French simultaneous interpreting

Combe,

Stosic

2024

Lang. cogn.

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The expression of manner has been extensively studied in the case of motion event descriptions, unveiling significant typological differences between satellite-framed and verb-framed languages and cognitive differences between speakers of these languages. However, far from being restricted to this semantic domain, the expression of manner extends to other types of event descriptions and across virtually all verb classes. In this paper, by considering all the means of expressing manner and grounding our research in a domain-independent definition of this component, we investigate the expression and the transfer of manner under high cognitive pressure as evidenced by corpus data from French–English (FE) and English–French (EF) simultaneous interpreting. Unexpectedly, both French and English displayed an overall cross-domain preference for the verbal-lexical coding of manner in event descriptions, while still differing in the degree to which it was favored. In addition, although our study does not allow a direct measure of cognitive load, the FE interpreters transfer more manner from the source to the target speeches than the EF interpreters do, despite high pressure on cognitive resources, supporting the claim that manner can be cognitively more salient and accessible for English than for French speakers, not only in the domain of motion but also at a more general level, potentially in any semantic domain.

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Processing manner under high cognitive pressure: Evidence from French–English and English–French simultaneous interpreting

Combe,

Stosic

2024

Lang. cogn.

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“…In other words, the proposal suggests that the mental control exercised (executive functioning skills) by bilinguals to manage multiple languages could positively affect cognitive abilities beyond just language-related tasks. It has been suggested that this may be due to neuroplasticity, whereby bilingualism may induce neuroplastic changes, leading to adaptations in brain networks involved in both language control and executive functioning (Diamond & Shreve, 2019), monitoring the language environment (Lehtonen, Fyndanis, & Jylkkä, 2023;Rubin & Meiran, 2005) or suppressing or inhibiting interference from the other language (Declerck & Koch, 2022).…”

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Bilingualism and flexibility in task switching

Ward,

Awani

2024

Stud Second Lang Acquis

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This study aimed to closely replicate Wiseheart et al. (Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 19(1), 141–146, 2016) by investigating the transferability of language-switching skills to nonlinguistic task switching. Current evidence is mixed and there is a need to conduct robust replications in this area. Bilingual (n = 31) and monolingual (n = 47) young adults characterized stimuli by either colour or shape based on a given cue. Modifications include online data collection (as opposed to in-person) and adapting the nonverbal intelligence test used. All other aspects of the study mirror those by Wiseheart et al. Results indicate that the bilinguals exhibited better cognitive flexibility in task switching, as evidenced by a reduced global switch cost compared with monolinguals. In contrast, mixed evidence was found for local switch costs. Findings mirror those reported by Wiseheart et al. and suggest that by employing comparable task-switch paradigms and recruiting samples matched on several key variables, including age, gender, variety of languages spoken, and use of English, bilingualism does seem to confer broader executive function advantages. Findings are discussed in relation to theoretical implications to inform future replication studies and advance the bilingual advantage in the switching debate.

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Translation, Interpreting, and the Bilingual Brain

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Processing manner under high cognitive pressure: Evidence from French–English and English–French simultaneous interpreting

Processing manner under high cognitive pressure: Evidence from French–English and English–French simultaneous interpreting

Bilingualism and flexibility in task switching

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