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标题：Syntactic Complexity and Subordination in Written Discourse of Speakers of Croatian as a Second and Foreign Language
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作者：Trtanj, Ivana ; Mikić Čolić, Ana
期刊名称：Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje
印刷版ISSN：1331-6745
出版年度：2019
卷号：45
期号：2
页码：675-694
DOI：10.31724/rihjj.45.2.21
出版社：Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje
摘要：
This research focuses on the analysis of syntactic complexity and subordination in written discourse of speakers of Croatian as a second and foreign language. In order to describe syntactic complexity, the research takes into account traditional factors in measuring complexity: the number of T-units, the mean length of T-units and the percentage of error-free T-units. Subordination is calculated on the basis of the ratio of the number of produced subordinate clauses and the number of T-units. Furthermore, the paper presents qualitative data on the sentence type produced by the speakers, the proportion of the subtype in the total number of subordinate clauses and the proportion of the subtype in the total production. The obtained data is compared to recent similar studies conducted in the Croatian language and other languages. The research in this paper is based on the corpus of 25 written compositions on the assigned topic written by native speakers of Polish, German, Spanish, French, Hungarian, English, Russian/ /Ukraine whose level of Croatian is at B1 level according to CEFR. The results indicate that there are individual differences between the speakers and that the measures of syntactic complexity are good indicators of syntactic development of second and foreign language speakers. The examinees’ syntactic development is in line with their expected language level.
关键词：syntactic complexity; subordinate clauses; grammatical competence; second and foreign language speakers; B1 level