Temporale Aspekte der Antizipation beim Simultandolmetschen von SOV-Strukturen aus dem Deutschen

Anticipation, i.e., the production of a constituent by the interpreter before the corresponding consti-tuent has been uttered in the original, is an important phenomenon for the simultaneous interpreting process which has not yet been studied exhaustively. The object of this paper is to explore, by means of a pilot study, to which extent the speed of delivery (v) of the original (O) is causally related to the interpreter’s anticipation when interpreting German SOV-structures. An experiment is designed to measure both the accuracy of anticipation (AA) and time of anticipation (tA) as variables depending on the speed of delivery (v). The results suggest that the time of anticipation (tA) is negatively affected by an increase in the speed of delivery (v), whereas the accuracy of anticipation (AA) only decreases marginally.