MLU giving odd results

[Gordon, Peter]

Yes it does them sequentially.  I've always done it that way.

On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 6:01 PM Nan Bernstein Ratner <nratner at umd.edu> wrote:

> 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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>> vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
>> 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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>> _________________________________________________________________
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>> vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
>> 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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>> _________________________________________________________________
>> vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
>> vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
>> 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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>> _________________________________________________________________
>> vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
>> vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
>> 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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>> _________________________________________________________________
>> vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
>> vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
>> 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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>> _________________________________________________________________
>> vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
>> vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
>> 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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>> _________________________________________________________________
>> vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
>> vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
>> 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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>> --
>>
>> Peter Gordon
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>> Biobehavioral Sciences and Human Development
>> Teachers College, Columbia University
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Biobehavioral Sciences and Human Development
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