CLEF
Catalogue of Lexico-grammatical
English Features
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Biber 1988 • Xiao 2009 • Bohmann 2019 • MFTE

A unified, structured, machine-readable catalogue of linguistic features for multi-dimensional register analysis, corpus stylistics, authorship attribution, and any research that relies on counting lexico-grammatical features in English text.

Features › General Text Properties › MSL

MSL Mean sentence length

Xiao O105

Definition

Average number of words per sentence.

Detection Rules

xiao_2009

Total word count divided by total sentence count.

Requires: word

Normalization

Per sentences

Sources

  • xiao_2009 — Xiao, Richard (2009) : Multidimensional analysis and the study of world Englishes

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MSL Mean sentence length
  • Definition
  • Detection
  • Normalization
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