Translating in fits and starts: pause thresholds and roles in the research of translation processes.
Two pause thresholds were tested, aimed at chunking the translation task workflow into task segments and classifying pauses into different kinds. Pauses below 200 ms were dubbed delays and excluded. An upper threshold at 3 × median pause between words was hypothesized (H1) to capture more translatio...
| Published in: | Perspectives: Studies in Translatology Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 525 - 552 |
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