Simultaneous interpreting is a complex bilingual verbal activity that involves
the auditory perception of an oral communication and the production of a
coherent discourse. One of the cognitive functions underlying simultaneous
interpreting is working memory. The aim of this work was to study the
relationship between expertise, working memory capacity and articulatory
suppression effect, and the ability to perform simultaneous interpreting. For
this purpose, four working memory tasks and one simultaneous interpreting task
were administered to thirty Spanish-speaking professional English interpreters.
Results showed that simultaneous interpreting ability might be supported by the
working memory´s capacity to store or process information, but also by the
ability of the interpreter to cope with the articulatory suppression effect. We
conclude that interpreters may have or develop resources to support the effect
caused by articulatory suppression.
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