A Corpus-Based Study of the Dependency Distance Differences in English Academic Writing

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...

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Main Authors: Nan Gao, Qingshun He
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2023-09-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440231198408