MLU and FREQ - words and tokens

[Ailín Franco]

Hi, Brian
Thank you for your quick response. I am going to revise this section in
order to understand the MLU exclusions (eg  repetitions and reformulations
that are coded as such, as I read in one of your papers)
Thank you again.
Ailín



El mié, 9 nov 2022 a las 16:43, Brian Macwhinney (<macw at andrew.cmu.edu>)
escribió:

> Alin,
>    FREQ looks at all words. MLU has lots of exclusions, based on the rules
> formulated by Brown (1973), as described in the manual in section 7.8.  If
> you think that the rules stated there are not in accord with Brown’s
> principles, I would need to see your input file.
>
> —Brian MacWhinney
>
> > On Nov 9, 2022, at 1:18 PM, Ailín Franco <ailinpfranco at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> > Sorry to write to you, but I've just started to use the programm and I
> have some doubts.
> > I am using MLU and FREQ and I saw a difference (in some cases) between
> the count of the words and tokens, for example:
> >
> > MLU for Speaker: *CHI:
> >   MLU (xxx, yyy and www are EXCLUDED from the utterance and morpheme
> counts):
> >     Number of: utterances = 19, words = 60
> >     Ratio of words over utterances = 3.158
> >     Standard deviation = 2.134
> >
> >    54  Total number of different item types used
> >    95  Total number of items (tokens)
> > 0.568  Type/Token ratio
> >     This TTR number was not calculated on the basis of %mor line forms.
> >     If you want a TTR based on lemmas, run FREQ on the %mor line
> >     with option: +sm;*,o%
> >
> > I am not calculating the numbers on %mor line, in neither of them.
> >
> > I am reading the manual but I don't undertand why is a difference in the
> numers of tokens and words
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> > Ailín
> >
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