Table 9 The Length of “把” (BA) sentences in the Chinese Translation and Original Corpora.

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

the Length of “把” (BA) Sentences

Chinese Original Corpus

Chinese Translation Corpus

Significance of Difference

Frequency

Percentage (%)

Frequency

Percentage (%)

Loglikelihood

Sig.

  

≥30

0

0.000

4

0.200

\

\

\

-

25–29

4

0.425

4

0.200

0.72

0.397

 

+

20–24

8

0.849

27

1.600

2.56

0.109

 

-

15–19

47

4.989

101

5.900

0.85

0.357

 

-

10–14

255

27.070

376

21.800

6.95

0.008

**

+

5–9

511

54.246

929

53.900

0.01

0.912

 

+

1–4

117

12.420

282

16.400

6.52

0.011

*

-

Total

942

100.000

1723

100.000

0.00

1.000

1

0