This paper investigates what effect the length of the source text has both on the translation process and on the translation product. In an eye-tracking and keystroke logging experiment, we compared three conditions, namely full texts, three-sentence sequences and single sentences as source items. The results suggest that translations of single sentences differ significantly from full texts, whereas three-sentence sequences are representative of the full text condition. Therefore, research in process-based translation studies might benefit from using shorter source texts without endangering the ecological validity of experiments.

中文翻译：

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比文字短，比句子长

本文研究了源文本的长度对翻译过程和翻译产品的影响。在眼动追踪和击键记录实验中，我们比较了三种条件，即全文，三句序列和单句作为源项目。结果表明，单个句子的翻译与全文有显着差异，而三句序列代表了全文状况。因此，基于过程的翻译研究可能会受益于使用较短的原文，而不会危害实验的生态有效性。