Tamar Degani
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tamar Degani plays a role.
Articles
2016 Determinants of translation ambiguity: A within and cross-language comparison Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:3, pp. 290–307 | Article
Ambiguity in translation is highly prevalent, and has consequences for second-language learning and for bilingual lexical processing. To better understand this phenomenon, the current study compared the determinants of translation ambiguity across four sets of translation norms from English to… read more
2010 Translation ambiguity: Consequences for learning and processing Research in Second Language Processing and Parsing, VanPatten, Bill and Jill Jegerski (eds.), pp. 281–294 | Article
Translation ambiguity occurs when a word in one language can be translated in more than one way into another language. This cross-language phenomenon comes from several sources of within-language ambiguity including lexical ambiguity, polysemy, and near-synonymy. We review the existing research on… read more