Here is a comparison of the syntactic complexity of the three texts: | Index | 1960 Text | 1990 Text | 2020 Text | |-|-|-|-| | MLS | 25.5 | 22.6 | 24.3 | | MLT | 25.5 | 22.6 | 24.3 | | MLC | 1.8 | 1.6 | 1.7 | | C/S | 1.8 | 1.6 | 1.7 | | V/T | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | | C/T | 2.8 | 2.6 | 2.7 | | DC/C | 0.56 | 0.63 | 0.59 | | DC/T | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.6 | | T/S | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | | CT/T | 0.28 | 0.26 | 0.29 | | CP/T | 1.8 | 1.6 | 1.7 | | CP/C | 0.64 | 0.62 | 0.63 | | CN/T | 0.56 | 0.53 | 0.59 | | CN/C | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.22 | In summary: - The 1960 text had the longest mean length of sentence and T-unit. - The 1990 text had the shortest mean length of sentence, T-unit, clauses, and phrases per T-unit. - The 2020 text was intermediate in most indices. - All three texts were fairly similar in syntactic complexity overall.