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Applied Linguistics, 2019
This longitudinal study examined growth patterns of written syntactic complexity of Turkish learners of English. Using a nonexperimental corpus of 852 writing samples by 284 English as a foreign language (EFL) learners over three semesters, the study ...
Nihat Polat +2 more
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This longitudinal study examined growth patterns of written syntactic complexity of Turkish learners of English. Using a nonexperimental corpus of 852 writing samples by 284 English as a foreign language (EFL) learners over three semesters, the study ...
Nihat Polat +2 more
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An Organic Syntactic Complexity Measure for the Chinese Language: The TC-Unit
, 2020Language complexity reveals the ability to use a wide and varied range of sophisticated structures and vocabulary. Although different languages compose complexity differently, complexity measures such as the T-unit have typically been based on clause ...
Qiaona Yu
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Life-span Changes in Syntactic Complexity
Journal of Gerontology, 1987Adults' diaries were examined for age-related changes in syntactic complexity. The diaries in the longitudinal sample were kept by 8 adults, born between 1856 and 1876, for seven or more decades. The diaries in the cohort-sequential sample were kept by 10 adults born between 1820 and 1829 and recorded during 1860 to 1869 or during 1900 to 1909 and 10 ...
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Filled Pauses and Syntactic Complexity
Language and Speech, 1974Two studies of syntactic complexity in relation to filled pause rates are described. In the first no relation between proportion of subordinate clauses and FP rate is found. In the second it is found that FPs precede longer than average clauses. It is suggested that FPs reflect processes of syntactic organisation at the clause level, rather than the ...
Mark Cook +2 more
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Linguistic complexity: locality of syntactic dependencies
Cognition, 1998This paper proposes a new theory of the relationship between the sentence processing mechanism and the available computational resources. This theory--the Syntactic Prediction Locality Theory (SPLT)--has two components: an integration cost component and a component for the memory cost associated with keeping track of obligatory syntactic requirements ...
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Syntactic complexity and cognitive style
Applied Psycholinguistics, 1980ABSTRACTIn Study 1, writing samples from secondary and post-secondary students were used to examine the underlying structures of 16 indices of syntactic complexity known to be related to good writing. Factor analysis revealed six syntactic dimensions: unbound description, coordination, unbound description-final position, embedding, elongation, and ...
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The writing of Spanish majors: A longitudinal analysis of syntactic complexity
, 2019Measures of syntactic complexity are often employed as a way to objectively characterize the development of second language (L2) writing. Complexity measures are eclectic and may be based on length of syntactic unit, relationships between clauses, and ...
Mandy R. Menke, Tripp Strawbridge
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Development of syntactic complexity in Chinese university students’ L2 argumentative writing
Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2022Yang Li +2 more
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THE SYNTACTIC PARADIGM OF COMPLEX SYNTACTIC CONSTRUCTIONS
This study investigates the macrosegmental organization of text and the syntactic paradigms of complex syntactic constructions in Uzbek linguistics. By analyzing syntactic functions and structural models of compound sentences and syntactic units across various genres, the research reveals the role of syntactic paradigms in shaping textual cohesion and ...openaire +1 more source