CSE 506/606 - Computational Approaches to Speech and Language Disorders
Spoken Language Analysis, Lecture 2

• Tentative outline:
• Syntactic complexity
• Preliminaries: grammars, trees, dependencies
• Measuring syntactic complexity
• Stack depth on pushdown automaton (memory)
• Evidence for left-corner approach
• Distance of dependencies (integration)
• Mean length of utterance (MLU)
• Other suggested complexity metrics
• Measuring complexity of language samples
• Lecture slides link (when available):