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Translation as a cognitive activity
Edited by Fabio Alves, Amparo Hurtado Albir and Isabel Lacruz
[Translation Spaces 4:1] 2015
► pp. 145–169

Translating and Post-Editing in the Chinese-Portuguese Language Pair

Insights from an Exploratory Study of Key Logging and Eye Tracking

Published online: 22 October 2015
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