A comparative study between mean length of utterance in morphemes (MLUm) and mean length of utterance in words (MLUw)

First Language

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 365-376

  Parker, Matthew D ^a   Brorson, Kent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Early childhood; Language sample; Morphology

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249167448     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723705059114     Document Type: Article

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