Nathan Vandeweerd
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nathan Vandeweerd plays a role.
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fsca: French syntactic complexity analyzer International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 7:2, pp. 259–274 | Article
2021 This article reports on an open-source R package for the extraction of syntactic units from dependency-parsed French texts. To evaluate the reliability of the package, syntactic units were extracted from a corpus of L2 French and were compared to units extracted manually from the same corpus.… read more
Applying phraseological complexity measures to L2 French: A partial replication study International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 7:2, pp. 197–229 | Article
2021 This study partially replicates Paquot’s (2018, 2019) study of phraseological complexity in L2 English by investigating how phraseological complexity compares across proficiency levels as well as how phraseological complexity measures relate to lexical, syntactic and morphological complexity… read more
Not just quantity but quality: The link between types of target language use and the development of phraseological sophistication during study abroad Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education: Online-First Articles | Article
This study investigates which types of target language (TL) use best explain the development of phraseological sophistication (mean pointwise mutual information of verb + direct object collocations) in argumentative essays written by second language learners of French during a nine-month sojourn… read more