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Publication Date: 1970
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The Role of Syntactic Complexity as a Determiner of Comprehensibility
Wang, Marilyn D.
J Verb Learning Verb Behav, 9, 4, 398-404, Aug '70
Three measures were found to contribute significantly to the prediction of comprehensibility: mean linguistic depth, the number of self-embedded structures in the sentence, and the number of conjoinging transformations in the derivational history of the sentence. (Author/FB)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Psycholinguistics, Sentences, Surface Structure, Syntax
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