How to Teach Plurals. How to Teach Past Tense Verbs. Past Tense Verb Flashcards. Your child should also be producing sentences with an average length of 4. How to Increase Sentence Length. Social Skills Resource Page. Literacy Resource Page. Sequencing Game. Opposites Game. How to Teach Adjectives. Adjectives Game. How to Teach Spatial Concepts. Spatial Concepts Game. Vocabulary Resource Page. Questions Resource Page. Looking for more therapy ideas and resources to help you provide the BEST services to your clients?
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From the table, we see that an MLU of 4. We can conclude, then, that an MLU of 4. A final note on calculating an MLU is worth making. Whilst an analysis of four utterances is better than analyzing just one we would have an MLU of 3.
Ideally one should analyze no fewer than utterances. Clearly, the more utterances that can be analyzed then the more accurate will be the result Miller and Chapman, ; Bishop and Adams, Now, whilst an MLU is helpful as an indicator of expressive language development it would not, and should not, be used as the only measure of expressive language ability. Garton and Pratt note that there is a positive correlation between an MLU and chronological age.
However, they warn that the correlation is weak. At best, therefore, an MLU is a useful guide, being insufficiently robust for any sort of detailed diagnostic measure. It can also be difficult to determine what counts as a morpheme. For example, should simple past tense forms of irregular verbs e.
Table 2. The fact that irregular English past tenses are not structurally constituted from two readily identifiable elements is merely an artifact of the English language. However, it is arguable that the child understands irregular past tenses as single units. From this perspective, then, they would be viewed as being constructed from just the one morpheme — one meaning unit, one morpheme. Difficulties such as those described above often mean that different analysts will calculate slightly different MLUs for the same utterances.
For this reason, it is usual to declare the protocol that is to be followed when calculating an MLU. Others may legitimately argue about the decision-making process but a protocol does at least provide a principled basis by which MLUs can be calculated. Figure 1 sets out a fairly typical protocol. How to count morphemes. Bishop, D. Brown, R. Garton, A. Johnson, B. Miller, J. Mean Length of Utterance 29 January Graham Williamson. Categories: Language. MLU age equivalent within 1 month 1. How to count morphemes Method: 1 Select completely intelligible utterances i.
Words that are unintelligible are transcribed as x. DO count: 1 The -s plural marker e.
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