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Jin-Lu Liu

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Open access Oct 2026

Are complex sentences reliable proxies for text-level linguistic complexity? A dependency-based corpus analysis of English

Abstract This study investigates whether English complex sentences can serve as reliable proxies for the overall linguistic complexity of the texts in which they appear. Focusing on both lexical and syntactic complexity, we analyze a dependency-annotated version of the Brown Corpus (1 million words, 15 genres), compari...

Jin-Lu Liu, Jin-Yi Zhang, Gai-Ying Chai · 0 citations

Aug 2026

Linguistic Distance and Syntactic Complexity in L2 Writing: A Dependency‐Based Analysis Across 17 L1 Backgrounds

Syntactic complexity is a central dimension of second language (L2) writing proficiency, yet it remains underexplored how it varies across learners from diverse first‐language (L1) backgrounds and whether such variation can be explained by linguistic distance. Drawing on a corpus of English writing produced by L2 l...

Nan Yang, Jin-Lu Liu · International Journal of App... · 0 citations