<div dir="ltr">Hi, Brian<div>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) </div><div>Thank you again.</div><div>Ailín</div><div><br></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El mié, 9 nov 2022 a las 16:43, Brian Macwhinney (<<a href="mailto:macw@andrew.cmu.edu" target="_blank">macw@andrew.cmu.edu</a>>) escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Alin, <br>
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.<br>
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—Brian MacWhinney<br>
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> On Nov 9, 2022, at 1:18 PM, Ailín Franco <<a href="mailto:ailinpfranco@gmail.com" target="_blank">ailinpfranco@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Dear all,<br>
> Sorry to write to you, but I've just started to use the programm and I have some doubts.<br>
> I am using MLU and FREQ and I saw a difference (in some cases) between the count of the words and tokens, for example:<br>
> <br>
> MLU for Speaker: *CHI:<br>
> MLU (xxx, yyy and www are EXCLUDED from the utterance and morpheme counts):<br>
> Number of: utterances = 19, words = 60<br>
> Ratio of words over utterances = 3.158<br>
> Standard deviation = 2.134<br>
> <br>
> 54 Total number of different item types used<br>
> 95 Total number of items (tokens)<br>
> 0.568 Type/Token ratio<br>
> This TTR number was not calculated on the basis of %mor line forms.<br>
> If you want a TTR based on lemmas, run FREQ on the %mor line<br>
> with option: +sm;*,o%<br>
> <br>
> I am not calculating the numbers on %mor line, in neither of them.<br>
> <br>
> I am reading the manual but I don't undertand why is a difference in the numers of tokens and words<br>
> <br>
> Thank you in advance,<br>
> Ailín<br>
> <br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="times new roman, serif" color="#444444">Ailín P. Franco Accinelli<br></font></div><font face="times new roman, serif" color="#444444"><a href="https://www.conicet.gov.ar/new_scp/detalle.php?id=58150&keywords=franco+accinelli&datos_academicos=yes" target="_blank">Becaria Doctoral Conicet</a></font><div><font face="times new roman, serif" color="#444444">Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en Psicología Matemática y Experimental "Dr. HORACIO J. A. RIMOLDI" (CIIPME - CONICET)</font><br></div></div></div>
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