2/15 - MLU

MLU stand for:

• Mean Length of Unit

• Mental Language Utterance

• Mean Length of Utterance

• Mean Language Unit

MLU is generally used to measure the language of those with a developmental age of 5 or younger

• True

• False

The numerator in the MLU calculation is:

• The total number of grammatical morphemes

• The total number of free morphemes

• The total number of morphemes in the utterance

• The total number of morphemes in the sample

The denominator of the MLU calculation is:

• The total number of free morphemes

• The total number of derivational morphemes

• The total number of bound morphemes

• The total number of utterances

Unintelligible utterances are included in MLU

• True

• False

What is the ideal number of utterances needed to calculate MLU?

• 50

• 100

• 150

• 200

Irregular plurals are counted as TWO morphemes

• True

• False

Only inflectional morphemes are considered separate morphemes in MLU

• True

• False

"eat-ed" counts as:

• 1 morpheme

• 2 morphemes

"hafta" counts as:

• 1 morpheme

• 2 morphemes