<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Janet,<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I am sorry to say it, but MLU can only count words or morphemes.</div><div><br></div><div>If you plan to use another program, then please keep in mind that MLU uses a lot of rules to decide if utterance or word(s) should be counted. You can read those rule in CLAN manual at <a href="https://talkbank.org/0info/manuals/CLAN.pdf">https://talkbank.org/0info/manuals/CLAN.pdf</a>. Please look for chapter "7.19" MLU in the manual.<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 25, 2025, at 14:53, 'Janet Bang' via chibolts <chibolts@googlegroups.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>Hello!<div><br>Is there a way to use the MLU program to extract MLU in characters? We are exploring measures to facilitate cross-linguistic comparisons between English and Spanish and someone had recommended using characters (over MLU words) given the orthographic transparency of Spanish. </div><div><br></div><div>We saw some other programs on github, but I was hoping there was something within CLAN because we had already used MOR within CLAN.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, </div><div>Janet</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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