MLU in characters?

['Janet Bang' via chibolts]

Got it, thank you!

On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM Leonid Spektor <spektor at andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> 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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