Language Prestige May Not Apply Equally Across Different Language Types

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This is a correction notice for a previously published article examining the "shining-through effect" in translations between English and Chinese. The shining-through effect refers to linguistic features from the source language that appear in translated texts. The original study investigated whether the language prestige hypothesis applies to these typologically distant languages by analyzing bidirectional translation corpora to detect source language interference patterns.

Why it matters

Understanding translation patterns between major world languages helps improve translation quality and computational translation tools. The findings contribute to translation studies theory by testing whether language prestige affects translation quality differently depending on translation direction between languages with distinct linguistic structures.