MLU giving odd results

Wed Oct 9 22:00:44 UTC 2024

I could be wrong but it looks like your command put in ALL of Adam's files?
*.cha?

On Wed, Oct 9, 2024, 5:47 PM Gordon, Peter <pgordon at tc.edu> wrote:

> I just taught a class where students do a simple MLU analysis to get used
> to CHILDES.  As I was doing it in class I noticed that the MLUs for Adam
> did not look right. His MLU for the first sample was 4.176, despite having
> mostly single word utterances.  Any thoughts?
>
> Peter
>
> mlu +tchi childes/Eng-NA/Brown/Adam/*.cha
> Wed Oct  9 17:38:29 2024
> mlu (29-Oct-2020) is conducting analyses on:
>   ONLY dependent tiers matching: %MOR;
> ****************************************
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> From file <childes/Eng-NA/Brown/Adam/020304.cha>
> MLU for Speaker: *CHI:
>   MLU (xxx, yyy and www are EXCLUDED from the utterance and morpheme counts):
> 	Number of: utterances = 1239, morphemes = 5174
> 	Ratio of morphemes over utterances = 4.176
> 	Standard deviation = 2.946
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> From file <childes/Eng-NA/Brown/Adam/020318.cha>
> MLU for Speaker: *CHI:
>   MLU (xxx, yyy and www are EXCLUDED from the utterance and morpheme counts):
> 	Number of: utterances = 1272, morphemes = 5062
> 	Ratio of morphemes over utterances = 3.980
> 	Standard deviation = 2.767
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> From file <childes/Eng-NA/Brown/Adam/020403.cha>
> MLU for Speaker: *CHI:
>   MLU (xxx, yyy and www are EXCLUDED from the utterance and morpheme counts):
> 	Number of: utterances = 830, morphemes = 3964
> 	Ratio of morphemes over utterances = 4.776
> 	Standard deviation = 3.062
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> From file <childes/Eng-NA/Brown/Adam/020415.cha>
> MLU for Speaker: *CHI:
>   MLU (xxx, yyy and www are EXCLUDED from the utterance and morpheme counts):
> 	Number of: utterances = 774, morphemes = 2870
> 	Ratio of morphemes over utterances = 3.708
> 	Standard deviation = 2.546
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> From file <childes/Eng-NA/Brown/Adam/020430.cha>
> MLU for Speaker: *CHI:
>   MLU (xxx, yyy and www are EXCLUDED from the utterance and morpheme counts):
> 	Number of: utterances = 837, morphemes = 3679
> 	Ratio of morphemes over utterances = 4.395
> 	Standard deviation = 3.146
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> From file <childes/Eng-NA/Brown/Adam/020512.cha>
> MLU for Speaker: *CHI:
>   MLU (xxx, yyy and www are EXCLUDED from the utterance and morpheme counts):
> 	Number of: utterances = 810, morphemes = 3392
> 	Ratio of morphemes over utterances = 4.188
> 	Standard deviation = 3.216
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> From file <childes/Eng-NA/Brown/Adam/020603.cha>
> MLU for Speaker: *CHI:
>   MLU (xxx, yyy and www are EXCLUDED from the utterance and morpheme counts):
> 	Number of: utterances = 849, morphemes = 4548
> 	Ratio of morphemes over utterances = 5.357
> 	Standard deviation = 4.005
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> From file <childes/Eng-NA/Brown/Adam/020617.cha>
> MLU for Speaker: *CHI:
>   MLU (xxx, yyy and www are EXCLUDED from the utterance and morpheme counts):
> 	Number of: utterances = 635, morphemes = 4197
> 	Ratio of morphemes over utterances = 6.609
> 	Standard deviation = 4.429
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> From file <childes/Eng-NA/Brown/Adam/020701.cha>
> MLU for Speaker: *CHI:
>   MLU (xxx, yyy and www are EXCLUDED from the utterance and morpheme counts):
> 	Number of: utterances = 853, morphemes = 4596
> 	Ratio of morphemes over utterances = 5.388
> 	Standard deviation = 3.860
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> From file <childes/Eng-NA/Brown/Adam/020714.cha>
> MLU for Speaker: *CHI:
>   MLU (xxx, yyy and www are EXCLUDED from the utterance and morpheme counts):
> 	Number of: utterances = 912, morphemes = 5096
> 	Ratio of morphemes over utterances = 5.588
> 	Standard deviation = 4.284
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