MLU in characters?

[Leonid Spektor]

Janet,

	I am sorry to say it, but MLU can only count words or morphemes.

If you plan to use another program, then please keep in mind that MLU uses a lot of rules to decide if utterance or word(s) should be counted. You can read those rule in CLAN manual at https://talkbank.org/0info/manuals/CLAN.pdf. Please look for chapter "7.19" MLU in the manual.


Leonid.

> On Jul 25, 2025, at 14:53, 'Janet Bang' via chibolts <chibolts at googlegroups.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Is there a way to use the MLU program to extract MLU in characters? We are exploring measures to facilitate cross-linguistic comparisons between English and Spanish and someone had recommended using characters (over MLU words) given the orthographic transparency of Spanish. 
> 
> We saw some other programs on github, but I was hoping there was something within CLAN because we had already used MOR within CLAN.
> 
> Thanks, 
> Janet
> 
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