The interpreter advantage hypothesis preliminary data patterns and empirically motivated questions

Translation and Interpreting Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 219-238

  García, Adolfo M ^a  

^a Depto 4A (segundo cuerpo) Falucho 1830   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Executive functions; Expertise; Interpreting; Linguistic processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84915767899     PISSN: 19322798     EISSN: 18762700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/tis.9.2.04gar     Document Type: Article

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