This study examined the relationship between syntactic complexity and quality ratings of narrative and argumentative writing of pupils in grades 6, 10, and 12. Selection was made of pairs of ...

A recent trend in research in first and second language acquisition has been renewed interest in the nature of the linguistic input to which language learners are exposed. As regards formal second ...

Human communication is powered by rules for combining words to generate novel meanings. Such syntactical rules have long been assumed to be unique humans. A new study, published in Nature ...