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Rekursion und syntaktische Komplexität im Lichte der psycho- und neurolinguistischen Forschung

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Sękowska J.
Germanica Wratislaviensia
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2016
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vol. 141
305-318
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Im vorliegenden Aufsatz wird die Frage nach der potentiellen Implementierung der rekursiven AnBn--Strukturen durch den Mechanismus der Satzverarbeitung behandelt. Es wird darauf hingewiesen, dass die einfachste Verarbeitungsstrategie, wo die adjazenten Sequenzen von zwei Kategorien A und B aufgezählt und verglichen werden, wegen der asymmetrischen Struktur der zentral-eingebetteten syntaktischen Abhängigkeiten keine Anwendung bei der kognitiven Verarbeitung finden kann.
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This article is devoted to the issue of the potential implementation of recursive AnBn structures by the sentence-processing mechanism. Worth noting is the fact that the simplest processing strategy, whereby categories A and B are listed and compared, cannot be applied to the cognitive processing of asymmetric structures of centrally embedded syntactic dependencies.
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Syntactic complexity as a stylistic feature of subtitles

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Stauder A., Ustaszewski M.
Studia Translatorica
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2020
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issue 11
177-188
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In audiovisual translation, stylometry can be used to measure formal-aesthetic fidelity. We present a corpus-based measure of syntactic complexity as a feature of language style. The methodology considers hierarchical dimensions of syntactic complexity, using syllable counting and dependency parsing. The test material are dialogues of several characters from the TV show “Two and a Half Men”. The results show that characters do not differ syntactically among themselves as much as might be expected, and that, despite a general tendency to level differences even more in translation, the changes in syntactic complexity between the original and translation depend mostly on the respective character-feature combination.
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On the fractal nature of complex syntax and the timescale problem

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Evans D. R.
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
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2020
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vol. 10
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issue 4
697-721
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Fundamental to complex dynamic systems theory is the assumption that the recursive behavior of complex systems results in the generation of physical forms and dynamic processes that are self-similar and scale-invariant. Such fractal-like structures and the organismic benefit that they engender has been widely noted in physiology, biology, and medicine, yet discussions of the fractal-like nature of language have remained at the level of metaphor in applied linguistics. Motivated by the lack of empirical evidence supporting this assumption, the present study examines the extent to which the use and development of complex syntax in a learner of English as a second language demonstrate the characteristics of self-similarity and scale invariance at nested timescales. Findings suggest that the use and development of syntactic complexity are governed by fractal scaling as the dynamic relationship among the subconstructs of syntax maintain their complexity and variability across multiple temporal scales. Overall, fractal analysis appears to be a fruitful analytic tool when attempting to discern the dynamic relationships among the multiple component parts of complex systems as they interact over time.
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