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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Fluency Disord. 2008 Jun 26;33(3):220–240. doi: 10.1016/j.jfludis.2008.06.003

Table 1.

Individual Age, Expected MLU (SD), MLU for 1200 Syllables, and MLU for Sections A and B, Including Means and Standard Deviations, with Items in Bold Indicating Where MLU for the Section Exceeded MLU for the 1200-Syllable Speech Sample

Participant Age (in months) Expected MLU (SD*) MLU for 1200 syllables MLU A MLU B
1 40 3.47 (0.756) 5.39 4.55 5.63
2 33 2.85 (0.633) 3.69 3.52 3.82
3 41 3.78 (0.817) 3.57 3.30 4.22
4 40 3.47 (0.756) 5.47 5.49 5.65
5 54 5.02 (1.064) 4.02 4.43 3.82
6 33 2.85 (0.633) 4.82 4.34 5.52
7 36 3.16 (0.694) 4.70 3.51 5.05
8 36 3.16 (0.694) 4.93 4.41 5.58
9 34 2.85 (0.633) 3.93 3.80 4.03
10 51 4.71 (1.002) 5.74 4.44 7.67
11 41 3.78 (0.817) 4.26 3.82 4.53
12 37 3.16 (0.694) 6.05 4.35 6.95
13 48 4.4 (0.94) 5.51 5.40 5.10
14 49 4.4 (0.94) 4.80 4.80 4.43
M 40.93 3.65 4.78 4.30 5.14
SD 6.94 0.73 0.79 0.66 1.14
*

Values are from Miller, J. F. (1981).