The Temporal Reliability of Brown's Mean Length of Utterance (MLU-M) Measure with Post-Stage V Children
- 1 March 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Speech Language Hearing Association in Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
- Vol. 25 (1) , 124-128
- https://doi.org/10.1044/jshr.2501.124
Abstract
The temporal reliability of Brown's MLU-M was investigated with 30 normally developing children, 10 in each of three age groups: 3:6–4:6, 5:6—6:6, and 8:6–9:6 years. All children obtained MLU-Ms greater than 4.0, which placed them beyond Brown–s Stage V of language learning. Language samples were evoked from these subjects on each of three consecutive days using picture stimuli. The reliability estimates indicated lack of stability for individual and average MLU-M values.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: