Translationese as a Rational Response to Translation Task Difficulty
Translated texts exhibit systematic differences from comparable texts originally written in the target language. Explaining this phenomenon, commonly known as translationese, remains an open challenge. Translationese has been attributed to production tendencies (e.g. interference, simplification), socio-cultural variables, and language-pair effects, yet a unified explanatory account is lacking. We investigate the hypothesis that translationese is a response to the cognitive load inherent in the translation task. We test whether observable translationese can be predicted from quantifiable measures of translation task difficulty. Translationese is measured as a segment-level probability of ...
| Authors | Maria Kunilovskaya |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 12 March 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 11 September 2026 |
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