Linear Dependency Segments in Foreign Language Acquisition:
Syntactic Complexity Analysis in Czech Learner's Texts.

J 2023

Linear Dependency Segments in Foreign Language Acquisition: Syntactic Complexity Analysis in Czech Learner's Texts.

NOGOLOVÁ, Michaela, Michaela HANUŠKOVÁ, Miroslav KUBÁT and Radek ČECH

Basic information

Original name

Linear Dependency Segments in Foreign Language Acquisition: Syntactic Complexity Analysis in Czech Learner's Texts.

Authors

NOGOLOVÁ, Michaela, Michaela HANUŠKOVÁ, Miroslav KUBÁT and Radek ČECH

Edition

Jazykovedny Casopis, Slovakia, Walter de Gruyter, 2023, 0021-5597

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

60203 Linguistics

Country of publisher

Slovakia

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2023-0037

Keywords in English

foreign language acquisition, dependency grammar, linear dependency segment, syntactic complexity, Czech language

Abstract

V originále

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

Citovat

NOGOLOVÁ, Michaela, Michaela HANUŠKOVÁ, Miroslav KUBÁT and Radek ČECH. Linear Dependency Segments in Foreign Language Acquisition: Syntactic Complexity Analysis in Czech Learner's Texts. Jazykovedny Casopis. Slovakia: Walter de Gruyter, 2023, vol. 74, No 1, p. 193-203. ISSN 0021-5597. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2023-0037.

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NOGOLOVÁ, Michaela, Michaela HANUŠKOVÁ, Miroslav KUBÁT and Radek ČECH. Linear Dependency Segments in Foreign Language Acquisition: Syntactic Complexity Analysis in Czech Learner's Texts. \textit{Jazykovedny Casopis}. Slovakia: Walter de Gruyter, 2023, vol.~74, No~1, p.~193-203. ISSN~0021-5597. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2023-0037.

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