Morphological complexity and rated writing proficiency
The case of verbal inflectional diversity in L2 Spanish
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 22299574 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Nuria De La Torre García (0000-0002-8225-1430, Universidad Nebrija), María Cecilia Ainciburu (0000-0003-4084-9909, Universidad Nebrija), Kris Buyse (0000-0003-1112-1708, Universidad Nebrija) |
| Ano | 2021 |
| Volume | 172 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 290-318 |
| Data de publicação | 2021-09-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0019-0829 • E-ISSN: 1783-1490 |
| Editora | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/itl.20009.del |
| OpenAlex | W3137678113 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 3 |
| Referências citadas | 22 |
Linguistic complexity measures are used to describe second language (L2) performance and assess levels of proficiency and development. Although morphology is considered crucial in L2 acquisition, morphological complexity has been relatively neglected, hindering comprehensive views of grammatical complexity in L2. This article presents an application of a recently proposed metric of morphological diversity, the Morphological Complexity Index (MCI), in an L2 Spanish corpus of 113 essays classified into four proficiency levels by expert evaluators. The aim of the study is to investigate the relationships of MCI with subjectively rated proficiency and with other four quantitative measures of L2 complexity. Results indicate that morphological complexity, as measured by MCI, does not vary significantly across proficiency levels in this corpus. The MCI shows significant correlations with lexical but not with syntactic complexity measures. Findings are interpreted in the light of the characteristics of the corpus and the acquisition of the Spanish verbal system
Language proficiency · Lexical Diversity · Linguistic sequence complexity · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Metric (unit) · Natural language processing · Vocabulary · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Text Readability and Simplification
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| Obras citantes distintas | 3 |
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| Citações por ano | 0,75 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 3 |