Abstract
DiStefano and Howie (Sentence Weight: An Alternative to the T-unit, English Education, 11 (1979), 98-101) have proposed sentence weight, a measurement based on Christensen's (1963) concept of hierarchical modification, as a more sophisticated measure for looking at syntactic complexity than the T-unit. DiStefano and Howie noted the extensive use of Hunt's (1964) T-unit in numerous studies but stated that it has been tradition, therefore, to use Hunt's T-unit analysis of syntactic complexity mainly because its use had been established and
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