L2 Syntactic Complexity Analyzer

by Xiaofei Lu
http://www.personal.psu.edu/xxl13/downloads/l2sca.html

L2 Syntactic Complexity Analyzer is designed to automate syntactic complexity analysis of written English language samples produced by advanced learners of English using fourteen different measures proposed in the second language development literature.

ということで、14の指標。

9つの言語的特徴を調べて
words (W)
sentences (S)
verb phrases (VP)
clauses (C)
T-units (T)
dependent clauses (DC)
complex T-units (CT)
coordinate phrases (CP)
complex nominals (CN)

14の指標を出力
mean length of sentence (MLS)
mean length of T-unit (MLT)
mean length of clause (MLC)
clauses per sentence (C/S)
verb phrases per T-unit (VP/T)
clauses per T-unit (C/T)
dependent clauses per clause (DC/C)
dependent clauses per T-unit (DC/T)
T-units per sentence (T/S)
complex T-unit ratio (CT/T)
coordinate phrases per T-unit (CP/T)
coordinate phrases per clause (CP/C)
complex nominals per T-unit (CN/T)
complex nominals per clause (CN/C)