Table 5 Group comparison on syntactic complexity and lexical diversity
Complexity measures | Group | N | M | SD | F | Sig. | Paired comparisons | Partial η2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lexical diversity: Type/token ratio | AWE*-NA | 25 | 19.34 | 1.03 | 16.79 | 0.000 | TF-NA = AWE-NA > AWE-AG > TF-AG | 0.85 |
AWE-AG | 19.27 | 1.14 | ||||||
TF-NA | 28 | 19.29 | 0.97 | |||||
TF-AG | 19.24 | 1.21 | ||||||
syntactic complexity: Mean length of clauses/total clauses | AWE-NA | 25 | 1.23 | 1.08 | 56.4 | 0.019 | TF-AG = AWE-AG > AWE-NA > TF-NA | 0.89 |
AWE-AG | 1.35 | 0.67 | ||||||
TF-NA | 28 | 1.21 | 0.78 | |||||
TF-AG | 1.37 | 0.77 | ||||||
Syntactic complexity: Mean length of t-units/total t-units | AWE-NA | 25 | 0.51 | 1.04 | 32.98 | 0.000 | AWE-AG > TF-AG > TF-NA > AWE-NA | 0.91 |
AWE-AG | 0.58 | 1.21 | ||||||
TF-NA | 28 | 0.53 | 1.08 | |||||
TF-AG | 0.56 | 0.86 |