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dc.contributor.authorMylläri, Taina
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-16T11:57:47Z
dc.date.available2020-11-16T11:57:47Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationMylläri, T. (2020). Measuring syntactic complexity in learner Finnish. <i>Apples : Journal of Applied Language Studies</i>, <i>14</i>(2), 67-92. <a href="https://doi.org/10.47862/apples.99134" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.47862/apples.99134</a>
dc.identifier.otherCONVID_47025760
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/72631
dc.description.abstractIn the study of complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF), syntactic complexity can be measured by a multitude of measures. Traditionally, the measures are quantitative and they use production units such as words, clauses, T -units, and sentences. Despite the vast number o f measures available, many studies have used only one or two of them, or parallel ones tapping the same component of complexity. The present study explores syntactic complexity using seven frequently used quantitative complexity measures to gauge different facets of complexity in written learner Finnish. The data of the study consist of texts written by adult and adolescent language learners, and they cover proficiency levels from beginner (A1) to advanced learner (C2) in the Common European Framework of Re ference (CEFR). According to the results, changes in the measures are not linear from one proficiency level to the next. The results also show that while all the selected measures catch some statistically significant differences between proficiency levels in adult language learner texts, only four measures do so in adolescent language learner texts. The results also suggest that the measures are sensitive to task type.en
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dc.languageeng
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherCentre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä
dc.relation.ispartofseriesApples : Journal of Applied Language Studies
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.subject.otherL2 writing
dc.subject.othercomplexity
dc.subject.otherlearner Finnish
dc.titleMeasuring syntactic complexity in learner Finnish
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-202011166654
dc.contributor.laitosHumanistis-yhteiskuntatieteellinen tiedekuntafi
dc.contributor.laitosFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciencesen
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle
dc.type.coarhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1
dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.format.pagerange67-92
dc.relation.issn1457-9863
dc.relation.numberinseries2
dc.relation.volume14
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© 2020: The authors
dc.rights.accesslevelopenAccessfi
dc.subject.ysotoinen kieli
dc.subject.ysokielitaito
dc.subject.ysokielen oppiminen
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jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p17005
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p5797
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p24061
dc.rights.urlhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.relation.doi10.47862/apples.99134
dc.type.okmA1


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