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Direct linkNan Gao; Qingshun He – SAGE Open, 2023
Dependency distance has increasingly become a key measure of interest in cross-linguistic corpus studies from multiple perspectives. Based on a syntactically annotated corpus of 400 PhD dissertation abstracts written by native English (L1) and English as a foreign language (L2) academic writers, the current study investigated the mean dependency…
Descriptors: Language, English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes, Sentence Structure
