Development of mean dependency distance in Czech L2 texts
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cilt.370.10han" target="_blank" >10.1075/cilt.370.10han</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Development of mean dependency distance in Czech L2 texts
Original language description
Syntactic analysis is a crucial part of second language acquisition studies. Over the past 30 years, researchers have developed numerous measures to evaluate the syntactic development of second language writers, concentrating on clause, t-unit, or sentence length. Recent attention has shifted towards measures that reflect sentence dependency structures, as demonstrated by mean dependency distance (MDD). Employing MDD, we actively analyse the syntactic development of Czech L2 texts using 5,721 samples that cover A1–C1 proficiency levels. We compare results with a reference corpus of texts authored by Czech native speakers (SKRIPT2012; Šebesta et al. 2013). We explore cross-linguistic influence by comparing Slavic language speakers and other language speakers at the same proficiency levels. Findings indicate a positive correlation between language proficiency and MDD, with significant differences between adjacent levels. Slavic L1 groups consistently demonstrate higher MDD than their other language speaker counterparts.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
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Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Mathematical Modelling in Linguistics and Text Analysis: Theory and applications
ISBN
978-90-272-2837-6
Number of pages of the result
10
Pages from-to
118-127
Number of pages of the book
241
Publisher name
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Place of publication
Amsterdam
UT code for WoS chapter
001609792500011