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Universal 1783:
- Original
- The Length Strategy:
The longer a sentence is, the more likely it is to be classified as belonging to a more formal register.
- Standardized
- The Length Strategy:
The longer a sentence is, the more likely it is to be classified as belonging to a more formal register.
- Keywords
- complexity, length, formality, register
- Domain
- syntax, pragmatics
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- experiment on 194 students, native speakers of Finnish and Swedish, in Östman 1989
- Source
- Östman 1989
- Counterexamples
