The effects of linguistic proximity on dependency distance and dependency direction of translated English from 35 languages

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104020" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104020</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104020" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104020</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The effects of linguistic proximity on dependency distance and dependency direction of translated English from 35 languages

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

As the “third code”, translated language differs from native language in terms of syntactic features. Translations from different source languages can exhibit syntactic variation due to the source language shining-through effect. This study investigates the impact of linguistic proximity on dependency distance and dependency direction of translated English from various source languages. A corpus of native English and translated English from 35 languages was constructed and annotated for analysis. The findings are: (1) Compared to native English, translated English from 17 languages exhibits shorter mean dependency distances (MDD), while translations from 18 languages exhibit longer MDD. Translations from 13 languages are more head-final, while translations from 22 languages are more head-initial. (2) The dependency distance of translated English correlates positively with the linguistic proximity between source language and English, while the clustering of dependency directions is associated with the linguistic proximity of source languages within language families. (3) For languages spoken in countries where English is an official language alongside the native language, the dependency distance and dependency direction of translated English are influenced more by English than by the native language. These differences arise because dependency distance reflects the cognitive demand involved in processing dependency relations, whereas dependency direction functions as a typological marker distinguishing languages. © 2025 Elsevier B.V.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The effects of linguistic proximity on dependency distance and dependency direction of translated English from 35 languages

Popis výsledku anglicky

As the “third code”, translated language differs from native language in terms of syntactic features. Translations from different source languages can exhibit syntactic variation due to the source language shining-through effect. This study investigates the impact of linguistic proximity on dependency distance and dependency direction of translated English from various source languages. A corpus of native English and translated English from 35 languages was constructed and annotated for analysis. The findings are: (1) Compared to native English, translated English from 17 languages exhibits shorter mean dependency distances (MDD), while translations from 18 languages exhibit longer MDD. Translations from 13 languages are more head-final, while translations from 22 languages are more head-initial. (2) The dependency distance of translated English correlates positively with the linguistic proximity between source language and English, while the clustering of dependency directions is associated with the linguistic proximity of source languages within language families. (3) For languages spoken in countries where English is an official language alongside the native language, the dependency distance and dependency direction of translated English are influenced more by English than by the native language. These differences arise because dependency distance reflects the cognitive demand involved in processing dependency relations, whereas dependency direction functions as a typological marker distinguishing languages. © 2025 Elsevier B.V.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

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Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Lingua

ISSN

0024-3841

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

326

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2025

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

11

Strana od-do

104020

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105012042432