Slovene interpreters in the European Parliament are not only expected to have the highest possible proficiency in a foreign language, but also a full mastery of their own mother tongue. However, due to limited working memory capacity and stress, certain deviations from the current language norm are not uncommon. The paper examines some of these deviations found in randomly selected sound recordings of simultaneous interpretation of plenary sessions in the European Parliament in the period from June to December of 2017, analysing them on various linguistic levels (from phonetics, morphology, syntax, vocabulary to style).
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