Table 2.

Syntactic differences in written English between learners from the two regions.

Dependency indicator	Jiangsu (N = 30)		Hong Kong (N = 32)		t
	M	SD	M	SD
Auxiliary	0.050	0.015	0.038	0.013	3.576**
Adverbial modifier	0.061	0.017	0.061	0.023	−2.245*
Adverbial clause modifier	0.006	0.006	0.013	0.008	−3.980**
Clausal complement	0.017	0.010	0.011	0.009	2.591*
Parataxis	0.017	0.017	0.008	0.009	2.672*
Indirect object	0.003	0.004	0.001	0.003	2.355*

^*p < 0.05;

^**p < 0.01.