Noun phrase complexity in young Spanish EFL learners' writing Complementing syntactic complexity indices with corpus-driven analyses

被引：14

作者：

Belen Diez-Bedmar, Maria ^{[1
]}

Perez-Paredes, Pascual ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Jaen, Dept English Studies, Bldg D2,Off 207, Jaen 23071, Spain

[2] Univ Cambridge, Fac Educ, Cambridge, England

来源：

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CORPUS LINGUISTICS | 2020年 / 25卷 / 01期

关键词：

syntactic complexity; learner language; NP syntactic complexity taxonomy; automatic analysis of complexity; TAASSC; 2ND-LANGUAGE; ACCURACY; FLUENCY; INDIVIDUALS; CHINESE; ENGLISH;

D O I：

10.1075/ijcl.17058.die

中图分类号：

H0 [语言学];

学科分类号：

030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;

摘要：

The research reported in this article examines Noun Phrase (NP) syntactic complexity in the writing of Spanish EFL secondary school learners in Grades 7, 8, 11 and 12 in the International Corpus of Crosslinguistic Interlanguage. Two methods were combined: a manual parsing of NPs and an automatic analysis of NP indices using the Tool for the Automatic Analysis of Syntactic Sophistication and Complexity (TAASSC). Our results revealed that it is in premodifying slots that syntactic complexity in NPs develops. We argue that two measures, (i) nouns and modifiers (a syntactic complexity index) and (ii) determiner + multiple premodification + head (a NP type obtained as a result of a corpus-driven analysis), can be used as indices of syntactic complexity in young Spanish EFL learner language development. Besides offering a learner-language-driven taxonomy of NP syntactic complexity, the paper underscores the strength of using combined methods in SLA research.

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