This paper explores differences in the syntactic complexity in English writing among college-
level writers with different first language (L1) backgrounds. We sampled 200 argumentative …

Cross-linguistic influence (CLI) is investigated by various research traditions that examine
language contact varieties. This article presents an analysis of syntactic and pragmatic …

This study examines the variable positioning of a finite adverbial subordinate clause and its
main clause with the subordinate clause either preceding or following the main clause in …

Background: This study determines if the English foreign language (EFL) Saudi students
achieve greater syntactic complexity when they engage in expressive writing than when they …

This paper examines the use of clause-initial adverbials in English novice writing. Previous
research has identified frequent use of such adverbials as characteristic of Dutch EFL …

Recent advances in computational linguistics and information retrieval have allowed for
computationally investigating measures of linguistic elaboration in assessing writing …

This study presents a longitudinal Bayesian analysis of pre-subject adverbial (PSA) use in a
571,174-word corpus of Dutch learner English. Overall, learners use more circumstance and …

In a previous series of crosslinguistic empirical studies in the domain of narratives and
picture descriptions, it has been shown that different conceptual principles of discourse …

Linguists who would like to make use of the increasing number of syntactically annotated
text corpora in their research can use existing tools to find and count instances of the …

La hipótesis de la interdependencia lingüística (Cummins, 1979) propone que existen
ciertos rasgos que se transfieren desde la lengua materna (L1) hacia la segunda lengua …