Calculating MLU with CLAN

[Alcock, Katie]

Dear Joseph
Brian Macwhinney was working with me quite some time ago on a MOR system for Kiswahili but we only made a few steps into nouns. It's a huge job, probably a PhD in itself.

Some researchers think MLU in words is fine though. I am not far from Leeds, in Lancaster - we should meet up. We have regular child language reading groups, mainly in Manchester. I'll make sure you're invited.

Who's your supervisor in Leeds?

Katie Alcock 

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Mwansa <mwenya.mwansa at gmail.com>
Sent: 13 September 2010 20:18
To: info-childes at googlegroups.com <info-childes at googlegroups.com>
Subject: Calculating MLU with CLAN

Dear All,
I am a PhD student researching the acquisition of object markers in Bemba, a
Bantu language widely spoken in Zambia.  I would like to calculate MLU of
the children I am studying but have realized that using words as units of
measurement is not an accurate way of finding the MLU in an agglutinating
language like Bemba. I would appreciate learning from those who have faced a
similar problem and how they solved it using CLAN.
Thank you.
Joseph Mwansa
PhD student
University of Leeds
School of Modern Languages and Cultures

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