Determinants of translation ambiguity: A within and cross-language comparison.
Determinants of translation ambiguity: A within and cross-language comparison.
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翻译歧义的决定因素：语言内和跨语言的比较。
DOI：
10.1075/lab.14013.deg
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
Tokowicz,Natasha
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作者：
Degani,Tamar;Prior,Anat;Eddington,ChelseaM;ArêasdaLuzFontes,AnaB;Tokowicz,Natasha
翻译中的歧义现象非常普遍，并且对第二语言学习和双语词汇加工产生了影响。为了更好地理解这一现象，本研究比较了从英语到西班牙语、荷兰语、德语和希伯来语的四种翻译规范中翻译歧义的决定因素。一个英语单词的翻译数量在这些不同的语言中是相关的，并且也与这个单词在英语中的意义数量相关，这表明翻译歧义部分是由语言内的语义歧义决定的。对于语义模糊的英语单词，在不受其他词汇和语义因素影响的情况下，双语者从母语翻译和从第二语言翻译时，西班牙语和希伯来语不同翻译的概率可以通过英语意义优势结构来预测。这些发现与假设中等熟练双语者直接从二语词汇中获取意义的模型是一致的。
Ambiguity in translation is highly prevalent, and has consequences for second-language learning and for bilingual lexical processing. To better understand this phenomenon, the current study compared the determinants of translation ambiguity across four sets of translation norms from English to Spanish, Dutch, German and Hebrew. The number of translations an English word received was correlated across these different languages, and was also correlated with the number of senses the word has in English, demonstrating that translation ambiguity is partially determined by within-language semantic ambiguity. For semantically-ambiguous English words, the probability of the different translations in Spanish and Hebrew was predicted by the meaning-dominance structure in English, beyond the influence of other lexical and semantic factors, for bilinguals translating from their L1, and translating from their L2. These findings are consistent with models postulating direct access to meaning from L2 words for moderately-proficient bilinguals.