TY - JOUR AU - Arif, Hakim AU - Bol, Gerard W PY - 2009/09/14 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Counting MLU in morphemes and MLU in words in a normally developing child and child with a language disorder: A comparative study JF - Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics JA - Dhaka University J Linguistics VL - 1 IS - 1 SE - English Essays DO - UR - https://www.banglajol.info/index.php/DUJL/article/view/3345 SP - 167-182 AB - <p>This paper provides a detailed description of Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) including a research experiment with a view to getting a comparative result on counting MLUm and MLUw - two specialized versions of MLU. In this experiment the data of a normally developing child and a child with language disorder have been taken from CHILDES database. The result which is relevant to some other previous studies shows that there exists a strong correlation between MLUm and MLUw. Thus, as a means of calculating MLU, MLUw could be preferred because it is easier, less technical in terms of grammatical complexity as well as a language or dialect neutral procedure.</p><p><strong>Key words</strong>: Mean Length of Utterance, MLUm, MLUw, CHILDES, SLI, CLAN  </p><p><em>Dhaka</em><em> University</em><em> Journal of Linguistics</em> Vol.1(1) 2008, 167-182  </p> ER -