Syntactic complexity in legal translated texts and the use of plain English: a corpus-based study

Abstract This study compared the linguistic difficulty of legal translated texts with the syntactic complexity of native English legal writings in order to demonstrate the statistically significant differences between the two big datasets. The study applies features of the syntactic complexity of se...

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Main Authors: Xiaowen Lin, Muhammad Afzaal, Hessah Saleh Aldayel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2023-01-01
Series:Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01485-x