English to Portuguese Other Linguistics Linguistics

It is difficult to imagine a better example of an issue which cries out for empirical investigation. If we ask what the unit is that the translator actually processes in the course of translating, we discover that there is good psychological and linguistic evidence to suggest that the unit tends to be the clause. There is also experimental evidence which supports the notion of co-occurrence between cognitive 'chunk' boundaries and syntactic boundaries within the clause; boundaries between major structural units (Subject, Predicator, Complement, etc.) and the forms which realize them (phrases for the most part).