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syntactic complexity: a standalone construct

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syntacticcomplexity1 CONSTRUCTSyntactic complexityLU · APPLIED LINGUISTICS

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Applied linguistics

the range and elaborateness of sentence structures a writer or speaker produces, measured by indices such as clause length and subordination.

In applied linguistics, syntactic complexity refers to the range and elaborateness of sentence structures a writer or speaker produces, measured by indices such as clause length and subordination. This meaning comes from Lu (2010) in International Journal of Corpus Linguistics.[1]

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clause2 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two constructscomplexity4 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, four constructscorpus1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

  1. Lu, X. (2010). Automatic analysis of syntactic complexity in second language writing. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 15(4), 474-496. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.15.4.02lu

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