A comparative analysis of syntactic complexity in argumentative essays from rhetorical perspective: ChatGPT vs. English native speakers. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThis study investigates the syntactic complexity of argumentative essays generated by ChatGPT in comparison to those written by native speakers. By examining cross-rhetorical-stage variation in syntactic complexity, we explore how ChatGPT's writing ...
Wenlong Liu, Xianming Liu
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Relative-to-human benchmark Cognitive Divergence and semantic comprehensibility in Chinese–Uyghur LLM translation [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThis study examines whether Large Language Models (LLMs) generate Chinese-to-Uyghur translations with syntactic patterns consistent with cognitive efficiency–motivated expectations. We compare translations produced by six mainstream LLMs with a benchmark
Jiaxin Zuo +2 more
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The syntactic complexity of Russian relative clauses. [PDF]
J Mem Lang, 2013 Although syntactic complexity has been investigated across dozens of studies, the available data still greatly underdetermine relevant theories of processing difficulty. Memory-based and expectation-based theories make opposite predictions regarding fine-grained time course of processing difficulty in syntactically constrained contexts, and each class ...
Levy R, Fedorenko E, Gibson E.
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Kolmogorov complexity metrics in assessing L2 proficiency: An information-theoretic approach
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Based on 774 argumentative writings produced by Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners, this study examined the extent to which Kolmogorov complexity metrics can distinguish the proficiency levels of beginner, lower-intermediate, and upper ...
Gui Wang, Hui Wang, Li Wang
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The Effect of Choice of Prompts on Syntactic Complexity, Grammatical Accuracy, and Lexical Diversity in L2 Argumentative Writing Essays [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2021 Previous research has shown the differential effects of task-related prompts on syntactic complexity, grammatical accuracy, and lexical diversity when L2 learners use writing prompts to produce a piece of writing. However, the extent to which the freedom
Rajab Esfandiari, Nilofar Sadeghian
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Capitalization interacts with syntactic complexity. [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020 We investigated whether readers use the low-level cue of proper noun capitalization in the parafovea to infer syntactic category, and whether this results in an early update of the representation of a sentence's syntactic structure. Participants read sentences containing either a subject relative or object relative clause, in which the relative clause ...
Michael G. Cutter +2 more
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Moniverbiset konstruktiot ja oppijansuomen kompleksisuus kielitaidon eri tasoilla
Lähivõrdlusi, 2023 "Verb constructions and complexity across proficiency levels in learner Finnish". Learner language development can be analysed by measuring complexity, accuracy and fluency. Complexity, our focus here, can be defined as the range and sophistication
Taina Mylläri
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Usage of subordinated and coordinated clauses in second grade and fourth grade narrative texts [PDF]
Specijalna Edukacija i Rehabilitacija, 2013 The research examined selected aspects of language development in the context of narratives. The purpose of this study was to register and examine the usage of coordinated and subordinated clauses in narrative texts produced by second grade and fourth ...
Ivanović Maja
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Syntactic Complexity of Regular Ideals [PDF]
Theory of Computing Systems, 2017 26 pages, 13 figures, 1 table.
Janusz A. Brzozowski +2 more
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The Relationship between Syntactic and Lexical Complexity in Speech Monologues of EFL Learners [PDF]
Applied Research on English Language, 2019 : This study aims to explore the relationship between syntactic and lexical complexity and also the relationship between different aspects of lexical complexity.
Aso Bayazidi +2 more
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