Calculating MLU with CLAN

[Joseph Mwansa]

Dear Katie,
This would be wonderful. I would certainly like to attend these meetings of
yours.
Thanks.
Best,
Joseph

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Alcock, Katie
<k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk>wrote:

> Dear Joseph
> Brian Macwhinney was working with me quite some time ago on a MOR system
> for Kiswahili but we only made a few steps into nouns. It's a huge job,
> probably a PhD in itself.
>
> Some researchers think MLU in words is fine though. I am not far from
> Leeds, in Lancaster - we should meet up. We have regular child language
> reading groups, mainly in Manchester. I'll make sure you're invited.
>
> Who's your supervisor in Leeds?
>
> Katie Alcock
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Mwansa <mwenya.mwansa at gmail.com>
> Sent: 13 September 2010 20:18
> To: info-childes at googlegroups.com <info-childes at googlegroups.com>
> Subject: Calculating MLU with CLAN
>
> Dear All,
> I am a PhD student researching the acquisition of object markers in Bemba,
> a
> Bantu language widely spoken in Zambia.  I would like to calculate MLU of
> the children I am studying but have realized that using words as units of
> measurement is not an accurate way of finding the MLU in an agglutinating
> language like Bemba. I would appreciate learning from those who have faced
> a
> similar problem and how they solved it using CLAN.
> Thank you.
> Joseph Mwansa
> PhD student
> University of Leeds
> School of Modern Languages and Cultures
>
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