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      Mean Length of Utterance in Cypriot Greek-speaking Children

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      Journal of Greek Linguistics
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      mean length of utterance, Cypriot Greek, typical language development

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          Abstract

          While research undertaken worldwide indicates that mean length of utterance ( MLU) is a valuable index in investigations of child language development, to date there have been no studies exploring MLU in pre-primary Cypriot Greek ( CYG)-speaking children. The participants in this study were 36 monolingual CYG-speaking children at ages 36, 40, 44 and 48 months, with a typical course of language development. The findings demonstrated that MLU counted in words ( MLU-w) of typically developing CYG-speaking children had a positive correlation with age (from 36 to 48 months) and a non-significant difference in MLU-w by gender at each age point, and that typically developing CYG-speaking children, for the age range studied, tended to produce more multiword utterance types. An outcome of this study is an MLU-w database which could be used, with some caution, in the language assessment of a similar population or as the basis for future studies. Areas for further research are identified.

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          This methodological study in 33 two-year-olds shows that child speech (total utterances, word roots, MLU) occurs at about the same level in different settings (the familiar home vs. the unfamiliar laboratory), but that children speak more and in more differentiated ways with different people (mother vs. stranger). Child speech also shows significant short-term stability. Girls use more different word roots and speak in longer utterances than do boys. In spontaneous child speech, cross-context generalizations appear warranted, but they also depend on conversational partner and gender of child.
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            Language sampling for kindergarten children with and without SLI: mean length of utterance, IPSYN, and NDW.

            Language sample analysis measures have long been promoted as exhibiting greater ecological validity than formal testing in the assessment of language disorder in children. In practice, their use is often restricted to preschool children, owing to lack of normative information, as well as criticisms of the validity of commonly used measures for the language of older children. This study compared scores of kindergarten children (mean age 6 years) with and without specific language impairment (SLI) on three commonly used language sample analysis measures: mean length of utterance in morphemes (MLU-m), the index of productive syntax (IPSyn), and number of different words (NDWs). Mean scores of the children with SLI were significantly lower for all three measures, though not for all subtests of the IPSyn. A number of individual differences were observed; notably, several children with SLI scored as well as those without. The problems and promise of language sampling for children beyond the preschool years are discussed in light of these results.
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                Contributors
                Journal
                15699846
                Journal of Greek Linguistics
                JGL
                Brill (The Netherlands )
                1566-5844
                1569-9846
                2016
                : 16
                : 1
                : 117-140
                Affiliations
                European University L.Voniati@ 123456euc.ac.cy
                Article
                10.1163/15699846-01601002
                44891ef2-773a-4aea-8fc3-f0b50c9c2cde
                Copyright 2016 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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                General linguistics,Linguistics & Semiotics,Languages of Europe,Theoretical frameworks and disciplines
                mean length of utterance,typical language development,Cypriot Greek

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