KWAL, MLU

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Emily,
  Sorry about the delay in adding further comment on the issue of
analyzing files with a certain number of turns.  The short answer is
that KWAL pulls out turns without exclusions, whereas MLU applies
additional exclusionary criteria.  So the results are usually different.
 But, then, KWAL and MLU have different purposes.  It might be possible
to modify the programs to achieve some of your purposes.  However, right
now, I am not clear enough about what you are trying to do.  Unless,
there is some particular reason to worry about MLU, why can't you just
use KWAL's method for pulling out a specified range of utterances?

--Brian MacWhinney