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These tools allow for greater sentence complexity in Japanese, as agreement does in English or Kinande.
This paper reports the results of five experiments designed to investigate the effects of referential processing on sentence complexity.
Experiments 1, 2 and 3 used questionnaires to gauge sentence complexity, whereas Experiments 4 and 5 used self-paced reading.
Each experiment manipulated noun phrases (NPs) in the subject positions of object-extracted relative clauses in order to determine how different types of NPs affected sentence complexity.
Because written texts are almost entirely divorced from oral pronunciation, sentence length and sentence complexity can be carried to extremes, as may be observed in some legal and legislative documents that are virtually unintelligible if read aloud.
The anomaly-sensitive sites correspond approximately to those that previous studies (Michael et al., 2001; Constable et al., 2004) have found to be sensitive to other differences in sentence complexity (object relative minus subject relative).
Gibson (Cognition, 68 (1998) 1) suggested that sentence complexity is related to the locality of integrations between dependent syntactic heads, and that an appropriate measure of locality is the number of new discourse referents intervening between the endpoints of those integrations.
First, the test items were developed by using a restricted set of vocabulary and grammar structures (see the "Methods" section), which limited the sentence complexity and vocabulary width of the test prompts (i.e., dialogs).
While readability formulas can't say much for the depth of literary aspects within a text, they offer objective measures of vocabulary and sentence complexity.
The two condition scenarios were matched for vividness and number of words; consideration was given to matching sentence complexity, the predominant imagined sensory modality, and the 'everyday' nature of the SHAPS items, although no specific ratings were acquired for these factors.
