#3854. Morphological complexity and rated writing proficiency the case of verbal inflectional diversity in L2 Spanish

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Abstract:
Linguistic complexity measures are used to describe second language (L2) performance and assess levels of proficiency and development. This article presents an application of a recently proposed metric of morphological diversity, the Morphological Complexity Index (MCI), in an L2 corpus of essays classified into four proficiency levels by expert evaluators. The aim of the study is to investigate the relationships of MCI with subjectively rated proficiency and with other four quantitative measures of L2 complexity. Results indicate that morphological complexity, as measured by MCI, does not vary significantly across proficiency levels in this corpus.
Keywords:
Inflectional diversity; L2 writing; Linguistic complexity; Morphological complexity index; Rated proficiency

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