Table 2 Indices used in the present study from Coh-Metrix.
Construct | Component | Variable | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
Cohesion | Referential Cohesion | CRFNO1 | Noun overlap between adjacent sentences |
| Â | Â | CRFNOa | Noun overlap between all sentences |
| Â | Â | CRFSO1 | Stem overlap between adjacent sentences |
| Â | Â | CRFSOa | Stem overlap between all sentences |
| Â | Â | CRFAO1 | Argument overlap between adjacent sentences |
| Â | Â | CRFAOa | Argument overlap between all sentences |
| Â | Â | CRFCWO1 | Content word overlap between adjacent sentences |
| Â | Â | CRFCWOa | Content word overlap between all sentences |
| Â | Â | CRFANP1 | Anaphor overlap between adjacent sentences |
| Â | Â | CRFANPa | Anaphor overlap between all sentences |
| Â | Personal Pronouns | WRDPRP1s | First-person singular pronoun incidence |
| Â | Â | WRDPRP1p | First-person plural pronoun incidence |
| Â | Â | WRDPRP2 | Second-person pronoun incidence |
| Â | Â | WRDPRP3s | Third-person singular pronoun incidence |
| Â | Â | WRDPRP3p | Third-person plural pronoun incidence |
| Â | Connectives | CNCCaus | Causal connectives incidence |
| Â | Â | CNCLogic | Logical connectives incidence |
| Â | Â | CNCADC | Adversative and contrastive connectives incidence |
| Â | Â | CNCTempx | Expanded temporal connectives incidence |
| Â | Â | CNCAdd | Additive connectives incidence |
| Â | Â | CNCPos | Positive connectives incidence |
| Â | Â | CNCNeg | Negative connectives incidence |
Coherence | LSA | LSASS1 | LSA overlap between adjacent sentences |
| Â | Â | LSASSp | LSA overlap between all sentences in paragraph |
| Â | Â | LSAGN | LSA given/new between sentences |
| Â | Situation Model | SMCAUSv | Causal verb incidence |
| Â | Â | SMCAUSvp | Causal verbs and causal particles incidence |
| Â | Â | SMINTEp | Intentional verbs incidence |
| Â | Â | SMCAUSr | Ratio of casual particles to causal verbs |
| Â | Â | SMINTEr | Ratio of intentional particles to intentional verbs |
| Â | Â | SMCAUSlsa | LSA verb overlap |
| Â | Â | SMCAUSwn | WordNet verb overlap |
| Â | Â | SMTEMP | Temporal cohesion, tense and aspect repetition |
