Syntactic complexity measures

CWA

Asymptotic Sig. (2-sided test)

Global level

MLS

0.001*

MLT

0.037*

Clausal level

MLC

0.001*

DC/T

0.001*

C/S

0.001*

T/S

0.000*

C/T

0.001*

CT/T

0.001*

DC/C

0.021*

Phrasal level

CP/C

0.001*

CN/C

0.023*

CN/T

0.001*

VP/T

0.001*

CP/T

0.001*