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DOI:10.22599/jesla.63 - Corpus ID: 225422804
@inproceedings{Myllri2020WordsCS, title={Words, clauses, sentences, and T-units in learner language: Precise and objective units of measure?}, author={Taina Myll{\"a}ri}, year={2020}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:225422804}}- Taina Mylläri
- Published 7 August 2020
- Linguistics
The results illustrating how written learner language can be hard to fit into the production unit categories, which are essential for the most frequently used quantitative measures of syntactic complexity, support calls to include explicit definitions of the units of measure when reporting findings obtained with these quantitative measures.
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