MLU in characters?

[Rasmus Steinkrauss]

 Dear Janet,

To get at the MLU in character, it might be worth a try to run WDLEN and 
then calculate the MLU in characters from the values provided there.

Best wishes,
Rasmus


On Friday, July 25, 2025 at 9:15:52 PM UTC+2 janet... at sjsu.edu wrote:

> Got it, thank you!
>
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM Leonid Spektor <spe... 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 <
>> chib... 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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