syntactic complexity using MEGRASP?

[Kimberly Mueller]

Hi Brian,
Thank you! Yes, I have been using the propositional density measure which 
is derived from CPIDER within CLAN and that has been useful so far.  I was 
hoping to obtain more specific syntax complexity measures, such as 
subordination index.  And I do have the POS tagging from MOR, and did also 
run the MEGRASP command; I am just unsure of how to extract the right 
variables for syntactic complexity, such as a subordination index.  If 
anyone has experience with that, I'd love to get advice!


On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 10:22:09 AM UTC-5, Brian MacWhinney wrote:
>
> Dear Kimberley,
>
> One measure people have used for AD is propositional density.  There is an 
> automatic syntactic complexity analyzer built into CLAN.  However, you need 
> to first have a %mor line created to use it.   In general, most measures of 
> complexity will require some kind of part-of-speech tagging or syntactic 
> analysis.
>
>  
>
> --Brian MacWhinney
>
>  
>
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> Kimberly Mueller <digg... at gmail.com <javascript:>>
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> *Subject: *syntactic complexity using MEGRASP?
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>  
>
> Dear All,
>
> I am continuing to search for an efficient way to analyze syntactic 
> complexity, using cookie theft samples in a late-middle aged cohort at risk 
> for Alzheimer's Disease.  Some of these participants are declining in 
> memory and language, but I expect deficits in syntax to be extremely 
> subtle, if they exist at all.
>
> I have quite a large number of transcripts, and we unfortunately did not 
> hand code clauses beforehand, so I am hoping for an automated way to look 
> at complexity.  Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Sincere thanks!
> Kimberly Mueller, UW Madison
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