Table 6.
Statistics of complexity measures and effect sizes.
| Measures | Group | Mean | SD | Cohen's D | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Syntactic | MLC | Medium | 10.0219 | 5.1542 | 0.12 |
| Complexity | High | 10.5780 | 4.0070 | ||
| C/S | Medium | 2.3716 | 0.9383 | 0.26 | |
| High | 2.1419 | 0.8147 | |||
| DC/T | Medium | 0.9398 | 0.5596 | 0.18 | |
| High | 0.8428 | 0.5713 | |||
| C/T | Medium | 2.0402 | 0.6934 | 0.21 | |
| High | 1.9020 | 0.6635 | |||
| T/S | Medium | 1.1589 | 0.2443 | 0.18 | |
| High | 1.1249 | 0.1875 | |||
| CP/T | Medium | 0.3964 | 0.2882 | 0.14 | |
| High | 0.4448 | 0.2876 | |||
| CN/T | Medium | 2.1245 | 1.0007 | 0.02 | |
| High | 2.1406 | 0.8891 | |||
| VP/T | Medium | 2.8276 | 0.9472 | 0.13 | |
| High | 2.6927 | 0.9920 | |||
| Lexical | Synonym | Medium | 14.2912 | 7.1209 | 0.3 |
| Complexity | High | 16.6855 | 8.5740 | ||
| Frequency | Medium | 8.3571 | 1.7884 | 0.05 | |
| High | 8.4443 | 1.4989 | |||
| Hyponymy | Medium | 3.8823 | 0.3994 | 0.44 | |
| High | 4.0518 | 0.3721 | |||
| Collocation | Medium | 9.4921 | 1.4786 | 0.01 | |
| High | 9.4668 | 1.3261 | |||
| MTLD | Medium | 55.2154 | 13.3558 | 0.39 | |
| High | 60.6953 | 14.6365 | |||
| Morphological | V100 | Medium | 4.0772 | 1.1222 | 0.43 |
| Complexity | High | 4.5519 | 1.0511 | ||
| T/F | Medium | 1.1309 | 0.0352 | 0.28 | |
| High | 1.1377 | 0.0337 |