Syntactic complexity in translated and non-translated texts: A corpus-based study of simplification.

PLoS One · 2021 · PMC8224846 · PMID 34166395

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ANOVA test shows a highly significant main effect of translation status, with higher syntactic complexity in the non-translated texts (FLOB) than the translated texts (COCE), which provides support for the simplification hypothesis in translation.

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