Mean length of utterance of children with Down syndrome.
Mean length of utterance (MLU) of children with Down syndrome was examined and found to correlate highly with chronological age, r = .87, p less than .001, despite the children's language delays. The correlation was reliable at least up to MLU 3.00. In the 1.00 to 3.50 range, MLU also predicted grammatical complexity.
Rondal
J A
JA
Laboratoire de Psycholinguistique, Universite de Liege, Belgium.
Ghiotto
M
M
Brédart
S
S
Bachelet
J F
JF
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004314:Down Syndrome / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D012660:Semantics; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D014705:Verbal Behavior