paul neubauer and elizabeth riddle
Kaplan claimed that English is more linear and contains fewer digressions than Slavic or Romance texts.
This study found that "the Romance and Slavic paragraphs in our sample exhibited no more digression than the English paragraphs. Furthermore, in none of the cases does this data support a claim that digressiveness is typical of expository prose paragraphs in that language."
Kaplan's doodles should not be repeated by other researchers as "gospel."
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