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Length of Utterance, in Morphemes or in Words?: MLU3-w, a Reliable Measure of Language Development in Early Basque
dc.contributor.author | Ezeizabarrena Segurola, María José | |
dc.contributor.author | García Fernández, José Ignacio | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-05T12:45:44Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-06-05T12:45:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-01-08 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Frontiers in Psychology 8 : (2017) // Article ID 2265 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 1664-1078 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/27363 | |
dc.description.abstract | The mean length of utterace (MLU), which was proposed by Brown (1973) as a better index for language development in children than age, has been regularly reported in case studies as well as in cross-sectional studies on early spontaneous language production. Despite the reliability of MLU as a measure of (morpho-) syntactic development having been called into question, its extensive use in language acquisition studies highlights its utility not only for intra-and inter-individual comparison in monolingual language acquisition, but also for cross-linguistic assessment and comparison of bilinguals' early language development (Muller, 1993; Yip and Matthews, 2006; Meisel, 2011). An additional issue concerns whether MLU should be measured in words (MLU-w) or morphemes (MLU-m), the latter option being the most difficult to gauge, since new challenges have arisen regarding how to count zero morphemes, suppletive and fused morphemes. The different criteria have consequences, especially when comparing development in languages with divergingmorphological complexity. A variant ofMLU, the MLU3, which is calculated out of the three longest sentences produced (MLU3-w and MLU3-m), is included among the subscales of expressive language development in CDI parental reports (Fenson et al., 1993, 2007). The aim of the study is to investigate the consistency and utility of MLU3-w and MLU3-m as a measure for (morpho-) syntactic development in Basque, an agglutinative language. To that end, cross-sectional data were obtained using either the Basque CDI-2 instrument (16-to 30-month-olds) or the Basque CDI-3 (30-to 50-month-olds). The results of analyzing reports on over 1,200 children show three main findings. First, MLU3-w and MLU3-m can report equally well on very young children's development. Second, the strong correlations found between MLU3 and expressive vocabulary in the Basque CDI-2 and CDI-3 instruments, as well as betweenMLU3 and both nominal and verbalmorphology scales, confirmthe consistency not only of MLU3 but also of the two Basque CDI instruments. Finally, both MLU3-w and MLU3-m subscales appear sensitive to input after age 2, which emphasizes their utility for identifying developmental patterns in Basque bilinguals. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | We are very thankful to all the parents, kindergartens and schools who collaborated with the research group, as well as to Andoni Barrena, Margareta Almgren, Julia Barnes, Nekane Arratibel and the rest of the members that participated in the normative study of the BCDI. We also want to acknowledge the institutions that supported this piece of research: The University of the Basque Country, The Basque Government (IT-983-16/GIC 15/129) and the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad/FEDER (FFI2015-68589-C2-1-P). Finally, we are in debt to Maialen Iraola, the two reviewers and a native English speaker for their helpful comments. The remaining mistakes are our own. | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | Frontiers Media | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/FFI2015-68589-C2-1-P | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ | * |
dc.subject | MLU | es_ES |
dc.subject | basque language | es_ES |
dc.subject | early language development | es_ES |
dc.subject | bilingualism | es_ES |
dc.subject | complexity | es_ES |
dc.subject | mean length | es_ES |
dc.subject | acquisition | es_ES |
dc.subject | exposure | es_ES |
dc.subject | children | es_ES |
dc.title | Length of Utterance, in Morphemes or in Words?: MLU3-w, a Reliable Measure of Language Development in Early Basque | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | 2018 Ezeizabarrena and Garcia Fernandez. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | Atribución 3.0 España | * |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02265/full | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02265 | |
dc.departamentoes | Lingüística y estudios vascos | es_ES |
dc.departamentoes | Psicología Social y Metodología de las Ciencias del Comportamiento | es_ES |
dc.departamentoeu | Gizarte psikologia eta portaera zientzen metodologia | es_ES |
dc.departamentoeu | Hizkuntzalaritza eta euskal ikasketak | es_ES |
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