TABLE 4.

Differences in syntactic complexity metrics among A2_0, B1_1, and B1_2.

	Complexity metrics	H	Sig	eta2[H]
Kolmogorov complexity	Kolmogorov syntactic complexity	30.23	0.000****	0.074
Traditional syntactic complexity	CN_C	9.61	0.008*	0.020
	CP_C	6.51	0.039*	0.012
	DC_C	2.89	0.236	0.002
	MLC	10.60	0.005*	0.022
	MLS	4.91	0.086	0.008
	MLT	9.01	0.011*	0.018
Fine-grained syntactic complexity	advmod_per_cl	4.24	0.120	0.006
	amod_nsubj_deps_struct	8.73	0.013*	0.018
	amod_pobj_deps_struct	2.34	0.310	0.001
	av_dobj_deps	0.01	0.995	–0.005
	av_pobj_deps	2.03	0.362	0.000
	dobj_stdev	0.46	0.796	–0.004
	nsubj_per_cl	3.25	0.197	0.003
	nsubj_stdev	13.61	0.001**	0.030
	prep_pobj_deps_struct	2.68	0.261	0.002

*p < 0.05; **p < 0.005; ****p < 0.00005; a detailed description of traditional syntactic complexity metrics and fine-grained syntactic complexity metrics were provided in Tables 2, 3, respectively.