Linear Dependency Segments in Foreign Language Acquisition: Syntactic Complexity Analysis in Czech Learners' Text.

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.juls.savba.sk/ediela/jc/2023/1/jc23-01.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.juls.savba.sk/ediela/jc/2023/1/jc23-01.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2023-0037" target="_blank" >10.2478/jazcas-2023-0037</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Linear Dependency Segments in Foreign Language Acquisition: Syntactic Complexity Analysis in Czech Learners' Text.

Original language description

The paper discusses a new way to measure syntactic complexity in foreign language acquisition. It is based on a recently proposed syntactic unit called linear dependency segment (LDS), the longest possible sequence of words belonging to the same clause where all linear neighbours are also syntactic neighbours. The dataset comprises 5,721 Czech texts from the CzeSL-SGT learner corpus covering five CEFR proficiency levels (A1–C1). The study covers two analyses. First, the development of the average clause length in terms of LDS and the average LDS length in the number of words across the latter language proficiency levels. Second, we consider the differences between Slavic and non-Slavic speakers. The results show an increasing tendency of the average clause length measured in LDS while the average clause length measured in words is decreasing. Results also show statistically significant differences between Slavic and non-Slavic speakers in most cases. Our results indicate that using LDS may be a useful unit of syntactic complexity measure in foreign language acquisition research.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Jazykovedný časopis

ISSN

0021-5597

e-ISSN

1338-4287

Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

193-203

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85181745056