Experiment Materials: Chinese-English haiku pairs were selected from Lighting the Bridge to the Moon: One Hundred and Eleven Macao Haiku

Twenty Chinese-English haiku pairs were selected from Lighting the Bridge to the Moon: One Hundred and Eleven Macao Haiku (Kelen, 2012), a corpus characterized by modern, non-rhyming structures to minimize cultural and stylistic biases. Haiku was chosen as the source material due to its brevity and structure: typically composed of three concise lines forming a single proposition, its fragmentary yet self-contained nature allows for controlled bilingual alignment and manipulation. Each haiku pair consisted of a three-line Chinese source text and its English translation.