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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 13.
Published in final edited form as: Semin Speech Lang. 2009 Oct 22;30(4):234–245. doi: 10.1055/s-0029-1241722

Table 2.

Combination of Mean Length of Utterance in Words and Percentage of Ungrammatical Utterances in Spanish*

MLU-w Ungrammatical Utterances (%) Decision
<2.5 >20 Fail
3.5 >25 Fail
4.5 >25 Fail
5.0 >30 Fail
5.5 >30 Fail
6.0 >30 Fail
6.5 >35 Fail
7.0 >35 Fail
*

Use of this combination can help rule in language impairment in Spanish.

MLU-w, mean length of utterance in words.