Table 11 Length of “得” (DE) Sentences in the Chinese Translation Corpus and the Chinese Original Corpus.

From: Normalization or creation? A corpus-based study of normalization in the Chinese translation of English children’s literature

Length

Chinese Original Corpus

Chinese Translation Corpus

Significance of Difference

Frequency

Percentage (%)

Frequency

Percentage (%)

Loglikelihood

Sig.

  

≥25

1

0.102

0

0.000

\

\

\

+

20–24

0

0.000

1

0.095

\

\

\

-

15–19

8

0.818

14

1.326

1.23

0.268

 

-

10–14

29

2.965

49

4.640

3.77

0.052

 

-

5–9

206

21.063

181

17.140

4.10

0.043

*

+

2–4

659

67.382

722

68.371

0.07

0.787

 

-

1

75

7.669

89

8.428

0.36

0.546

 

-

Total

978

100.000

1056

100.000

0.00

1.000

1

0