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This chapter defines ten dependent measures argued to be associated with referent similarity based on developmental L1 research. These include a multi-faceted model of noun phrase complexity, explicit comparative structures, and later-emerging relative clause forms. These variables have been shown to relate to language use by speakers at different developmental levels and reflect the types of language variation expected in different conditions of referent similarity based on the theoretical and empirical research outlined in Chaps. 3, 4 and 5.
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Lambert, C. (2019). Referent Similarity and L2 Production. In: Referent Similarity and Nominal Syntax in Task-Based Language Teaching. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3089-6_6
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