These required less sophisticated text processing and had previously been used in several studies with success (Beinborn et al., 2012; Dell'Orletta et al., 2011; François and Fairon, 2012; <cite>Heimann Mühlenbock, 2013</cite>; Vajjala and Meurers, 2012) . We computed sentence length as the number of tokens including punctuation, and token length as the number of characters per token.