Projects & Grants
| Quantitative analysis of syntactic complexity in Czech texts | |
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| Project Id | SGS04/FF/2025 |
| Main solver | Mgr. Miroslav Kubát, Ph.D. |
| Period | 1/2025 - 12/2025 |
| Provider | Specifický VŠ výzkum |
| State | solved |
| Anotation | The project focuses on the quantitative analysis of the syntactic complexity of Czech texts, using methods such as average sentence length, average clause length, average dependency distance (MDD) and average length of linear dependency segments (LDS). The analysis will be applied to three different corpora: the New Year speeches of Czechoslovak and Czech presidents (in order to investigate the differences between democratic and communist presidents), the works of Karel Čapek (to analyse the effect of genre on syntactic complexity in literary works of one author), and adapted literature for non-native speakers (to assess syntactic complexity by language level). The project will thus provide insight into the relationship between syntactic complexity and different types of texts. This project is closely related to the themes of PhD thesis of M. Nogolová (Between word and clause, a quantitative analysis of syntactic units) and Ž. Stiborská (Reading literacy among students with a different mother tongue). |
