Table 1.
Design scheme of COCE and statistical facts of its English component.
Table 2.
Descriptive statistics for the 13 measures in the five subconstructs of syntactic complexity.
Table 3.
ANOVA results in the main analysis.
Fig 1.
Syntactic complexity (z-score) as a function of number of mean sentence length (z-score) in text.
Fig 2.
Comparison of the two corpora in syntactic complexity for each genre type.
Error bar represents ±SE.
Table 4.
ANOVA results for the by-genre separate analyses.
Fig 3.
Comparison of the two corpora in syntactic complexity for each measure.
Error bar represents ±SE. LPU = Length of Production Unit, AS = Amount of Subordination, AC = Amount of Coordination, PC = Phrasal Complexity, OSC = Overall Sentence Complexity.
Table 5.
ANOVA results for the by-subconstruct separate analyses.
Table 6.
Mann-Whitney tests on syntactic complexity between FLOB news and COCE news.
Example 1.
Example from news in FLOB and COCE.
Example 2.
Example from news in FLOB and COCE.
Table 7.
Mann-Whitney tests on syntactic complexity between FLOB prose and COCE prose.
Example 3.
Examples with “if” retrieved from COCE and FLOB general prose.
Example 4.
Examples with “despite” retrieved from COCE and FLOB general prose.
Table 8.
Mann-Whitney tests on syntactic complexity between FLOB academic writing and COCE academic writing.
Example 5.
Example retrieved from the academic prose of FLOB and COCE.
Table 9.
Mann-Whitney tests on syntactic complexity between FLOB fiction and COCE fiction.
Example 6.
Example of sentence length in fiction between FLOB and COCE.
Example 7.
Coordinate phrases in fiction between FLOB and COCE.