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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"MLU"”.
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Split-half Reliability of MLU and MLU2 in Two Methods of Utterance Segmentation
Concerns regarding Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) has led to adaptations of this method of analysis. A recent study by Johnston (2001) introduced an alternative to MLU called MLU2. The current study investigates the split-half reliability of MLU and MLU2 as well as another alternative, Median …
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Developmental expectations for child-like sentences
… (USVs). Mean length of utterance in morphemes (MLU; Brown, 1973) and Index of Productive Syntax (IPSyn; Scarborough, 1990) scores were calculated using 100 complete and intelligible utterances to determine the relationship between sentence diversity and general language measures. Results: There …
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An analysis of maternal questions to young deaf children during storybook reading
… of questions and child Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) measurements, between questions and maternal signing skill, and between questions and child responding, were also explored. Results indicated that the mothers used fewer questions than that used by mothers of hearing children, but the types of …
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Phonologische und flexionsmorphologische Fehler in der Sprache normalhörender und hörgeschädigter Kinder
… durchschnittlicher Äußerungslänge (MLU = 3,0 - 4,75) wurden untersucht. Jede Gruppe bestand aus 13 Kindern. In die phonologische Analyse gingen 200 Äußerungen pro Kind ein. Phonologische Fehler bestanden in der Auslassung, Ersetzung oder Hinzufügung von Phonemen ohne grammatische …
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Scoring Sentences Developmentally: An Analog of Developmental Sentence Scoring
… corpora were manually analyzed using DSS and MLU and the processed by the automated software. Results show all three indices to be highly correlated, with correlations ranging from .62 to .98. The high correlations among scores support further investigation of the psychometric characteristics …
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An Enhanced Dialogic Reading Approach to Facilitate Typically Developing Pre-School Children's Emergent Literacy Skills.
… their preliteracy skills. With the exception of MLU, there were no differences in children's oral language, speech, or receptive language skills, which support the modularity of emergent literacy skills.</p>
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Language in the context of motor activity: Gross and fine motor differences.
… It was suggested that measures other than MLU be used to determine linguistic maturity due to characteristics of the expressive style. Contexts of gross and fine-motor activity were also created to see if different motor activity produces different speech. Context influenced types of speech …
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Bilingual first language acquisition: the nature of the weak language and the role of the input
… production of target-deviant forms, vocabulary, MLU and discourse pragmatics. The results are summarised in the Weak Language Scale. The results are further tested by examining longitudinal and experimental data which are used to test the hypothesis that children who develop Italian as a weak …
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Oral Narration of African American Students in General and Gifted Education Programs
… (NDW), and general language production (MLU, TNU, TNW). A culturally-fair standardized language assessment battery was administered including the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-4, Expressive Vocabulary Test-2, and the Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation-Screening Test to more …
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L1 Acquisition of Japanese Particles: A Corpus-Based Study
… children complete particle acquisition around MLU (m) 3.00 regardless of differences in the threshold of particle use. Further, none of the three children mimicked their mother's frequency of particle use, even as they all conform to a particular sequence of particle acquisition. The first set …
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Interactions of caregiver speech and early word learning in the Speechome corpus : computational explorations
… word recurrence and mean length of utterances (MLU) for over one million words of caregivers' speech. We found significant correlations between all 6 variables and the child's age of acquisition (AoA) for individual words, with the best linear combination of these variables producing a …
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An Evaluation of POS Taggers for the CHILDES Corpus
<p>This project evaluates four mainstream taggers on a representative collection of child-adult’s dialogues from Child Language Data Exchange System. The nine children’s files from Valian corpora and part of Eve corpora have been manually labeled, and rewrote with LARC tagset. They served as gold …
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Comprehension of Spanish relative and passive clauses by early bilinguals and second language learners
… ratio (MATTR), mean length of utterance (MLU) and fluency in words per minute. Results showed that SR(SVO) and OR(OSV) were both easily comprehended by both groups of learners. The fact that SR(SVO) and OR(OSV) show the same word order as their English counterparts might explain the …