Table 3 Mean DD between the first premodifiers and the HNs of the participant NGs in the corpus.

From: A corpus-based dependency study of the correlation between nominal group complexity and clause complexity in English academic writing

 

SS

Humanities

NS

 

Subject

Object

Subject

Object

Subject

Object

With modifier

2371

2937

1931

2081

1905

2570

Mean DD

1.4589

1.6728

1.4909

1.7213

1.6777

1.8572

Longest DD

15

12

7

9

12

17

DD 1

1661

1671

1317

1167

1068

1226

Without modifier

2366

823

1587

512

1752

411

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