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Pauses (and other prosodic features) in Simultaneous Interpreting

 | Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany |
Published online: 1 April 2007
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https://doi.org/10.1075/forum.5.1.01ahr
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L’interprétation simultanée est une forme de communication orale spécifique qui se distingue par des éléments prosodiques tels que les intonations ou les pauses, éléments-clé tant pour le texte d’origine que pour le texte-cible. Les pauses figurent parmi les phénomènes durationnels destinés à segmenter le continuum acoustique en unités d’information. De plus, elles révèlent les processus cognitifs qui sont à la base de toute production de parole. Le présent article analyse le taux de parole et la structure des pauses dans un corpus authentique de prestations d’interprétation simultanée dans le couple linguistique anglais – allemand tout en étudiant leurs fonctions et leurs interactions avec d’autres phénomènes prosodiques.
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