Study of Scrambling in Simultaneous Interpretation

Scrambling is the unbounded movement of one or more than one of elements in a sentence. The placement of arguments and adjuncts in English is predominantly determined by prosodic constraints. There is an overt operation in English called; silent scrambling that moves the direct object of the verb into the middle field. In present study scrambling was searched in some conversation in Persian which is interpreted simultaneously into English. Conversations were downloaded from the net in order to be analyzed. In conducting the research in a descriptive approach, naturally occurring scrambling in simultaneous interpretation is under study.Based on data analysis, obtained from collected data, by measuring chi square and finding the frequency of scramble sentences, the study suggests that scrambled Persian forces English to be scrambled in simultaneous translation in some parts and there is a direct relationship between Scrambling and Simultaneous interpretation.

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Scrambling ، Scrambling in Persian ، Scrambling in English ، Simultaneousinterpretation