Monitoring primed of-genitive construction and the escort manifestations of low availability in English simultaneous interpreting from adlibbed Colloquial Arabic: a cognitive empirical study

This study is a small-scaled experiment performed to monitor a common output English linguistic tendency of Arabic native trainee-interpreters when interpreting from their Language A, Arabic. Relying on cognitive theorizing and interrelations between SI models, the study seeks to monitor the frequency of primed prepositional of-genitives and escort errors, omissions, additions, un/filled pauses by means of a quan-qual analysis of the output sample transcripts and suggest training on the centripetal stimulation of the of-genitive alternative forms as a language enhancement required for A/E SI training. An experiment comprising nine subjects is performed, and output audios are manually transcribed, and scrutinized for the escort of-genitive manifestation of low availability. Major findings show a ratio of 5.2: 1: 0.26 between the occurrences of, respectively, of-genitive, compound noun, and –'s genitive. Evidence on priming the of-genitive construction against a monitored lower frequency of the two alternative forms is provided. Of-genitive LC’s show higher rates of escort manifestations of low availability; 208 hits (64.79%) of the total 321 output genitive occurrences are monitored with escort EOI’s. Qualitative analysis of prepositional genitive hits shows linguistic interference caused by low language separation skills. 36.76% (118 hits) of the total output genitives correspond to Arabic mudaaf constructions.