句法复杂度与日语母语者汉语应用文写作质量关系研究

The Relationship Between Syntactic Complexity and the Quality of Chinese Practical Writing by Japanese Native Speakers

以中高级水平日语母语者所写的汉语应用文(求职信)为研究对象,在句层面和短语层面分别设立3个测量指标,考察不同层面的句法复杂度指标与写作质量的关系。研究发现,句层面的3项话题链指标与写作成绩相关均不显著。在短语层面,复杂名词短语的总数、长度指标与成绩相关不显著,而比率指标与成绩显著相关,能够解释应用文成绩总变异的17.7%,达到中等效应量。这一结论证明了短语层面的复杂名词短语比率是预测应用文写作成绩的有效指标。

This paper investigated the relationship between syntactic complexity and the quality of Chinese practical writing by Japanese native speakers,using 3 complexity indices at the sentence level and the phrase level respectively.The results showed that topic-comment unit(TC-unit)indices at the sentence level,did not correlate with writing scores significantly.At the phrase level,the total number of complex noun phrases and length of all complex premodifiers did not have remarkable correlation with writing scores,but the complex noun phrase ratio significantly related to writing quality and accounted for 17.7%of the variance in practical writing scores,reaching a medium effect size.These findings confirmed that the index of complex noun phrase ratio at the phrase level is an effective index to predict the quality of practical writing.