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...