Reliability of the Mean Length of Utterance Measure in Samples of Children's Language

Mean length of utterance (MLU) is widely used in child language sample analysis as a way to quantify language development. The current study examines the split-half reliability of MLU and two alternative measures: MLU2 and median length of utterance (MdLU). The effects of utterance segmentation into...

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Main Author: Bigelow, Katherine Marie
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2012
Subjects:
MLU
Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3274
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4273&context=etd