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Mean Length of Utterance Levels in 6-Month Intervals for Children 3 to 9 Years with and without Language Impairments
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Rice, Mabel L.; Smolik, Filip; Perpich, Denise; Thompson, Travis; Rytting, Nathan; Blossom, Megan – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2010
Purpose: The mean length of children's utterances is a valuable estimate of their early language acquisition. The available normative data lack documentation of language and nonverbal intelligence levels of the samples. This study reports age-referenced mean length of utterance (MLU) data from children with specific language impairment (SLI) and…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Intelligence, Intervals, Morphemes