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| Title: | Notes on Ingram's whole-word measures for phonological development |
| Author: | Helena Taelman |
| Institution: | University of Antwerp |
| Author: | Gert Durieux |
| Institution: | University of Antwerp |
| Author: | Steven Gillis |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Institution: | University of Antwerp |
| Linguistic Field: | Phonology; Psycholinguistics |
| Abstract: | In this note we discuss pMLU, a whole-word measure for phonological development that was proposed by Ingram (2002). Ingram's rules for calculating pMLU are analysed and we point at the crucial role of the level of transcription for making pMLU measurements comparable over different corpora. The main aim of the paper is an assessment of the reliability and the validity of pMLU. The assessment is accomplished using a computational tool for measuring pMLU on two large Dutch CHILDES corpora. We propose minimal sample sizes for reliable measurements relative to the stage of phonological development. |
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This article appears in Journal of Child Language Vol. 32, Issue 2, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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