<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Dear Diane,<div> As noted by Natasha Rakhlin, repetitions are typically excluded from MLU. This is done automatically and by default in the CLAN MLU program, using the marking of repetitions with the <text> [/] and <text> [//] symbols. There is also a program called REPEAT that can add these marks if they are not present, but it is safer to do this carefully when transcribing. </div><div><br></div><div>— Brian MacWhinney</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Jun 5, 2014, at 6:04 PM, Diane Lillo-Martin <<a href="mailto:diane.lillomartin@gmail.com">diane.lillomartin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div>I would be very interested in knowing how you treat self-repetitions for various types of analyses, especially MLU.</div><div><br></div><div>In particular, I'm thinking of both single word and phrase repetitions, such as a sequence of repeating the word 'ball' while playing with the ball; or repetitions of phrases such as 'want cookie', either immediate or with some intervening talk.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I know that immediate repetitions are generally not counted according to the criteria established by Brown. I believe that they would be included in the CLAN calculation of MLU unless they are specifically tagged and the command is set to exclude them.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you work with MLU or other measures for which it is relevant, how do you treat such repetitions?</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks in advance,</div><div>Diane</div><div><br></div><div>----------</div>
<div>Diane Lillo-Martin</div><div>University of Connecticut</div><div><br></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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