SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY IN AI-GENERATED AND HUMAN WRITTEN ENGLISH TEXTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
Keywords:
syntactic complexity, AI-generated text, sentence structure, human writing, clause density, stylistic variation.Abstract
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2026-10-04
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