The investigation of simultaneous interpreters as an alternative approach to address the signature of multilingual speech processing;Was Simultandolmetscher dazu beitragen kçnnen, um Mehrsprachigkeit besser zu verstehen

Zeitschrift fur Neuropsychologie

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 105-116

  Elmer, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Articulation of speech; Cognitive functions; Language expertise; Multilingualism; Plasticity; Transfer effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862549043     PISSN: 1016264X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/1016-264X/a000068     Document Type: Review

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