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. 2021 Oct 7;9(10):e30588. doi: 10.2196/30588

Table 1.

New multidimensional framework of the linguistic readability of health translations in Chinese.

Category Features
Morphology Two-character words, three-character words, average strokes per character, high-stroke characters (above 21 strokes), low-stroke characters, middle-stroke characters (11-20 strokes)
Sentences structure Average sentences per paragraph, average words per sentence, simple sentences
Semantics Type-token ratio, content words, density of content words, difficult words (beyond the most common 3000 words), ratios of noun phrases, normalized frequency of noun phrases,
sentences with complex semantic categories (polysemes)
Logic and coherence Conjunctions, positive conjunctions, negative conjunctions, personal pronouns, pronouns, adverbs of negation