Table 1. Examples of Production Measures Analyzed.
Measure | Description | Example: Tall parents often have tall kids. |
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Tokens | Fluency measure: counts the overall number of words spoken | “Tall – parents – often – have – tall - kids”
Tokens = 6 Number of words: 6 |
MLU | (Mean Length of Utterance) Complexity measure: average of number of morphemes per utterance | “Tall - parent – s(Plu) – often – have – tall – kid – s(Plu)”
MLU = 8 Number of Morphemes: 8 Number of Utterances: 1 |
TTR | (Type-Token Ratio) Semantic variety measure: divide number of unique words by total number of words | “Tall – parents – often – have – kids
TTR = 0.83 Number of unique words: 5 Number of words: 6 |