Dickens wants his reader to have a strong sense of place and the use of the complex sentences allows him to do this.

MIT neuroscientists have discovered what kind of sentences are most likely to fire up the brain's key language processing centers. The new study reveals that sentences that are more complex ...

Grasping complex sentences could keep your ... But now, researchers have pinpointed a collection of specific sentences that have this effect. Dr Evelina Fedorenko, an associate professor of ...

In the past, "mind reading" systems have been able to ... a way to accurately read more complex concepts from a brain scan, and even piece together entire sentences. Even the most basic sentence ...

And forget dumbed-down baby talk: Longer, more complex sentences are better. "The advice I give mothers is to have conversations ... How early does the word gap appear? Around age 18 months ...

Dickens wants his reader to have a strong sense of place and the use of the complex sentences allows him to do this.