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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Brian,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Could you please let me know how the linkage symbol “ _” is different from<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>the compound marker “+”? I am presently teaching the CHAT transcription and CLAN<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>programs in my course and have tried to run MLU (on main tier) and MAXWD on the <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>same transcripts with the linkage symbol (Baby_Allison) or with the compound marker<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(Baby+Allison) to understand the difference between the two symbols. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Baby_Allison/Baby+Allison occurs 6 times in the test transcripts (please see attached).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I got slightly different MLUs as well as MAXWD output (see below). For the MAXWD, the linkage <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>symbol“_” is counted as one letter. What about MLU counts? I thought both cases are <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>counted as one morpheme word but apparently not. Please let me know why.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Baby_Allison<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> MLU +t*CHI -t%mor @<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>mlu +t*CHI -t%mor @<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mon Feb 06 19:24:38 2012<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>mlu (03-Jan-2012) is conducting analyses on:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> ONLY speaker main tiers matching: *CHI;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>****************************************<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>From file <c:\CHILDES\psyc561\data\lab12012\Alisson22testmlu#3.cha><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>MLU for Speaker: *CHI<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> MLU (xxx, yyy and www are EXCLUDED from the utterance and morpheme counts):<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Number of: utterances = 22, words = 40<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Ratio of words over utterances = 1.818<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Standard deviation = 0.936<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Baby+Allison<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> MLU +t*CHI -t%mor @<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>mlu +t*CHI -t%mor @<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mon Feb 06 19:25:10 2012<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>mlu (03-Jan-2012) is conducting analyses on:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> ONLY speaker main tiers matching: *CHI;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>****************************************<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>From file <c:\CHILDES\PSYC561\DATA\LAB12012\Alisson22testmlu#4.cha><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>MLU for Speaker: *CHI<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> MLU (xxx, yyy and www are EXCLUDED from the utterance and morpheme counts):<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Number of: utterances = 22, words = 43<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Ratio of words over utterances = 1.955<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Standard deviation = 0.976<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> maxwd +t*mot @<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>maxwd +t*mot @<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mon Feb 06 19:41:29 2012<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>maxwd (03-Jan-2012) is conducting analyses on:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> ONLY speaker main tiers matching: *MOT;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>****************************************<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>From file <c:\CHILDES\PSYC561\DATA\LAB12012\Alisson22testmlu#3.cha><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>*** File "c:\CHILDES\PSYC561\DATA\LAB12012\Alisson22testmlu#3.cha": line 13: 12 characters long:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>baby_allison<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>*** File "c:\CHILDES\PSYC561\DATA\LAB12012\Alisson22testmlu#3.cha": line 24: 12 characters long:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>baby_allison<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>*** File "c:\CHILDES\PSYC561\DATA\LAB12012\Alisson22testmlu#3.cha": line 41: 12 characters long:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>baby_allison<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mon Feb 06 19:40:22 2012<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>maxwd (03-Jan-2012) is conducting analyses on:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> ONLY speaker main tiers matching: *MOT;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>****************************************<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>From file <c:\CHILDES\PSYC561\DATA\LAB12012\Alisson22testmlu#4.cha><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>*** File "c:\CHILDES\PSYC561\DATA\LAB12012\Alisson22testmlu#4.cha": line 13: 11 characters long:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>baby+allison<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>*** File "c:\CHILDES\PSYC561\DATA\LAB12012\Alisson22testmlu#4.cha": line 24: 11 characters long:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>baby+allison<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>*** File "c:\CHILDES\PSYC561\DATA\LAB12012\Alisson22testmlu#4.cha": line 41: 11 characters long:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>baby+allison<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Yuriko<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>
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