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Mean Length of Utterance (or MLU ) is a measure of linguistic productivity in children. It is traditionally calculated by collecting 100 utterances spoken by a child and dividing the number of morp...
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What we need to do now is determine the age at which the majority of children would present with a mean length of utterance equivalent to the one our particular child has scored. This is known as the age equivalent.
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To determine the mean length of utterance in morphemes (MLUm) the number of morphemes is divided by the number of utterances. ... The abstract speaks for itself: "Despite much criticism MLU is often used to "language-age- match" children with language disorders to younger children with typical language.
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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). ... While Brown did not assign ages to the five Stages, others have noted the most typical age range for each.
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Prior to Brown’s (1973) introduction of mean length of utterance in morphemes (MLUm), child language researchers and speech-language pathologists used mean length of utterance in words (MLUw) as a measurement of a child’s gross language development.
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Children with Speech Sound Disorders (SSD), categorized according to MLU development, were compared on various language measures to a group of age-matched children with typical development in pre-kindergarten and grade one, in the hope of identifying early characteristics of children with poor language outcomes.
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The use of psychological state words by late talkers at ages 3, 4, and 5 years ... Eliza Carlson Lee ... The children's mean length of utterance, total words uttered, lexical diversity, and use of propositional complements were assessed.
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