The relationship between child age and mean length of utterance measured in morphemes (MLU) was studied in a sample of 123 middle- to upper-middle-class midwestern children, aged 17 to 59 months, conversing with mothers in free play. ... The substitution of local MLU norms, sampled from the population and ages of...
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age most likely to be associated with a given MLU. The substitution of locat MLU norms, sampled from the population and ages ...
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Assessment Methods for Young Children With Communications Disorders - Continued ... Such measures include mean length of utterance (MLU), as well as measures of syntax (grammar), morphology (word structure), semantics (the meaning of words), and pragmatics (functional use of language).
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therapy and is designed for children whose mean-length-of-utterance falls between ... proaches, with their attendant norms and scales, can be used . ...
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Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) Mean length of utterance (MLU ) (Brown, 1973 ) was used to assess length of syntax. For each transcript, the mother and the child utterances were coded for MLU analysis using CLAN conventions for marking morpheme boundaries.
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The relationship between age and MLU in young children: A second look at Klee and Fitzgerald's data . ... Grammatical morpheme acquisition: Do norms exist? ...
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mean length of utterance or ... SALT norms ... Other Abbreviations; NLS: Natural Language Sample; AE: Age equivalent; MLU: Mean Length of Utterance; C: Consonant; V: Vowel...
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Roger W. Brown, as a result of his extensive research on children's language in 1973, described five stages of development based on the mean length of the their utterances (MLU).
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Discrepancy Criteria: Using psychometric norms to demonstrate child’s skills are discrepant with what’s expected of a group of "peers". Usually means comparing test scores for discrepancies. ... 1. MLU: Mean Length Utterance...
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It seems to be working with Mary, she is definately behind her peers in the length of sentences she comes up with (Mean length of utterance is below age norms, to use the jargon), but her speech is clearer than average for her age, and she certainly speaks far better than is expected of children with Down Syndrome.
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