MLU in syllables?

[Nan Bernstein Ratner]

This may seem like a stupid question, but do pediatricians know what a syllable is? My spouse, who is a doctor, probably would prefer something based on a literate unit, like words. I am afraid to ask what he thinks about counting syllables in any language, but I will go home tonight and ask.
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Nan Bernstein Ratner, Professor and Chairman
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From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shanley Allen
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 5:25 PM
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Subject: MLU in syllables?

I'm wondering if anyone has tried to calculate MLU in syllables for any language, or knows of any study like this. I'm working with an SLP colleague to devise tests that would be suitable for assessing language delay in Inuktitut. The target user group is pediatricians who don't know Inuktitut well enough to do a morphological analysis, but want to use measures that are appropriate for the language. This idea seems a little crazy, but our preliminary results show that MLU in syllables correlates very highly with MLU in morphemes in Inuktitut data, so it might just work.

Thanks in advance,
Shanley Allen.

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