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Syntactic depth and clause embedding serve as metrics to rate the processing complexity of English sentences.
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Syntactic depth, clause embedding, and related structural measures are widely utilized across linguistic and computational studies as standard metrics to rate the processing complexity and difficulty of sentences.

Evidence for · 4
Syntactic complexity in legal translated texts and the use of plain English: a corpus-based study
2023 · cited by 25
The study notes that complex nominal and hypotactic structures increase propositions per sentence, raising cognitive processing demands.
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The retrieved papers consistently employ measures such as syntactic tree depth, embedded clause levels, and clause-based complexity metrics to assess linguistic difficulty and cognitive processing demands. No papers refute the claim.

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Developing syntactic complexity and accuracy in EFL students’ essays through sentence combining
2025 · cited by 5
Measures including clauses per T-unit and dependent clauses per clause are used as key dimensions of syntactic complexity.
Syntactic complexity recognition and analysis in Chinese-English machine translation: A comparative study based on the BLSTM-CRF model
2025 · cited by 2
The study utilizes average syntactic node depth and embedded clause levels as core indicators for evaluating syntactic complexity and processing difficulty.
Key predictors of proficiency in L2 writing: Syntactic, lexical complexity, and accuracy
2025 · cited by 2
Measures such as dependent clauses per T-unit serve as primary indices of syntactic complexity in assessing writing performance.
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  1. Syntactic complexity in legal translated texts and the use of plain English: a corpus-based studypeer-reviewedsupports
  2. Multiple routes to clause unionpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  3. Syntactic Complexity Effects of Russian Relative Clause Sentences in Children with and without Developmental Language Disorderpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  4. Factive and counterfactive interpretation of embedded clauses in aphasia and its relationship with lexical, syntactic and general cognitive capacitiespeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  5. Mapping sentence comprehension and syntactic complexity: evidence from 131 stroke survivorspeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  6. Developing syntactic complexity and accuracy in EFL students’ essays through sentence combiningpeer-reviewedsupports
  7. Global measures of syntactic and lexical complexity are not strong predictors of eye-movement patterns in sentence and passage readingpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  8. American Sign Language basic clause comprehension strategies used by late first-language learners: Plausibility, animacy, and linguistic structurepeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  9. Effects of working memory and task type on syntactic complexity in EFL learners’ writingpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  10. Cognitive constraints and lexicogrammatical variability in ASD: from diagnostic discriminators to intervention strategies.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  11. Syntactic complexity recognition and analysis in Chinese-English machine translation: A comparative study based on the BLSTM-CRF modelpeer-reviewedsupports
  12. Key predictors of proficiency in L2 writing: Syntactic, lexical complexity, and accuracypeer-reviewedsupports
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