This title brings together research from psychology, general linguistics, psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics into simultaneous interpretation. It discusses the development of applications in language learning and processing and moves onto the role of the "phonological loop".

1. Preface; 2. Working Memory and Language Processing (by Baddeley, Alan); 3. Prerequisites to a Study of Neurolinguistic Processes involved in Simultaneous Interpreting A Synopsis (by Paradis, Michel); 4. Attentional Mechanisms and the Language Acquisition Device. Reflections on Communication and Developmental Processes (by Sharwood Smith, Michael); 5. Perceptual Foreign Accent and its Relevance for Simultaneous Interpreting (by McAllister, Robert); 6. Simultaneous Interpreting as Language Production (by Bot, Kees de); 7. Issues in Interdisciplinary Research into Conference Interpreting (by Gile, Daniel); 8. Searching to Define Expertise in Interpreting (by Gile, Daniel); 9. Searching to Define Expertise in Interpreting (by Moser-Mercer, Barbara); 10. Phonological Interference in Interpreters of Spoken-Languages: An Issue of Storage or Process? (by Isham, William P.); 11. The Computer-Based Transcription of Simultaneous Interpreting (by Meyer, Bernd); 12. Index