Grammatical Analysis Is Required to Describe Grammatical (and “Syntactic”) Complexity: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview”

Douglas Biber; Bethany Gray; Tove Larsson; Shelley Staples

doi:10.1111/lang.12683

Grammatical Analysis Is Required to Describe Grammatical (and “Syntactic”) Complexity: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview”

Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray, Tove Larsson, Shelley Staples

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Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	575-581
Number of pages	7
Journal	Language Learning
Volume	75
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12683
State	Published - Jun 2025

Keywords

Grammatical complexity
grammatical structures
omnibus measures
syntactic complexity
syntactic functions

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Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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Grammatical Analysis Is Required to Describe Grammatical (and “Syntactic”) Complexity: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview”. / Biber, Douglas; Gray, Bethany; Larsson, Tove et al.
In: Language Learning, Vol. 75, No. 2, 06.2025, p. 575-581.

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