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Researchers often make participants jump through hoops. Due to our personal blind spots, it seems easier to realise the full extent of these acrobatics when we consider the work of other researchers. In linguistic research, the acrobatics are often spurred by unnatural grammatical constructions.

Analysis of how Google Translate handles pronominal object clitics in preverbal position in Romance languages, which serve to emphasize the agent and require marked translations to preserve this focus in English.