Based on 90 argumentative texts from the corpora of LOCNESS and WECCL, paper attempts to make a study syntactic complexity those texts. All data are processed online by Web-based L2 Syntactic Complexity Analyser, then with corpus tool AntConc IBM SPSS Statistics 20. The findings include: for one thing, L1 learners use more complex sentences verb phrases, embedded clauses, in their writings, com...

We study the syntactic complexity of finite/cofinite, definite and reverse definite languages. The syntactic complexity of a class of languages is defined as the maximal size of syntactic semigroups of languages from the class, taken as a function of the state complexity n of the languages. We prove that (n − 1)! is a tight upper bound for finite/cofinite languages and that it can be reached on...

BACKGROUND This study investigated the relationship between phonological and syntactic disorders of French-speaking children with specific language impairment in production. AIMS To compare three theories (pure phonological theory, surface theory, and mapping theory) of language developmental disorders, all of which view phonological difficulties as the main reason for the children's problems...

This study examines second language (L2) syntactic development in conjunction with the effects such development has on human judgments of writing quality (i.e., judgments of both overall writing proficiency and more fine-grained judgments of syntactic proficiency). Essays collected from 57 L2 learners in a longitudinal study were analyzed for growth and scoring patterns using syntactic complexi...

Using corpus data of spoken dialogue, we examine the convergence of syntactic complexity levels between interlocutors in natural conversations, as it occurs within spans of topic episodes. The findings of general convergence in the Switchboard and BNC corpora are compatible with an information-theoretic model of dialogue and with Interactive Alignment Theory.

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 of theory receives support from results on ...

Comprehension deficits of spoken language have been widely described subsequent to damage to the left hemisphere (Nicholas and Brookshire, 1995). Research to date has primarily focused on comprehension of isolated words or sentences in persons with aphasia (pwa) (Yasuda, Nakamura & Beckman 2000). However, a few studies have suggested that pwa use heuristics (context and general knowledge) to fa...

The research investigated the syntactic complexity of opinion articles published in online newspapers from English as a Second Language (ESL) and Foreign (EFL) countries South-East Asia (SEA). aims were, first, to analyze types Syntactic Complexity (SC) news media. second was seek difference between ESL EFL countries. third whether there significant terms measurements To answer questions, appli...

1 " I don't see any principled way to distinguish linguistics from neurolinguistics any more than one can distinguish chemistry from physical chemistry in principle. These may be useful distinctions for temporary purposes, but one looks forward to erosion of such boundaries as understanding progresses. My own view has always been that the part of the study of language relevant here is in princi...