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Simultaneous interpretation provides an ideal situation for a logical analysis of an information-processing model. To the external observer, the interpreter listens to a speech in one language, while simultaneously (or at least within a few seconds or so) articulating the same message in a second language. In terms of an information-processing description, the simultaneous interpreter must decode the surface structure of the original message, map it into some abstract representation, take this same abstract representation and map it into a new surface structure, and finally articulate the translated message.
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Massaro, D.W. (1978). An Information-processing Model of Understanding Speech. In: Gerver, D., Sinaiko, H.W. (eds) Language Interpretation and Communication. NATO Conference Series, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9077-4_26
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