<div>Dear Janet,</div><div><br /></div><div>To get at the MLU in character, it might be worth a try to run WDLEN and then calculate the MLU in characters from the values provided there.</div><div><br /></div><div>Best wishes,<br />Rasmus</div>
<br /><br /><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto" class="gmail_attr">On Friday, July 25, 2025 at 9:15:52 PM UTC+2 janet...@sjsu.edu wrote:<br/></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr">Got it, thank you!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM Leonid Spektor <<a href data-email-masked rel="nofollow">spe...@andrew.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Janet,<div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </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" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://talkbank.org/0info/manuals/CLAN.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1753697259798000&usg=AOvVaw34NHf51rRZ8xUUgYzz2iGa">https://talkbank.org/0info/manuals/CLAN.pdf</a>. Please look for chapter "7.19" MLU in the manual.<br><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 25, 2025, at 14:53, 'Janet Bang' via chibolts <<a href data-email-masked rel="nofollow">chib...@googlegroups.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><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></div>
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