Mean length of utterance

available to study the development of preschoolers. To study semantics, researchers look at the “total number of words” (TNW), number of different words (NDW), and the type token ratio (TTR)”. In order to study syntax, they will focus on “mean length of utterance (MLU) and developmental sentence scoring.” Furthermore, researchers can use developmental sentence scoring (DSS) to look at a child’s syntax. DSS looks at eight different categories and gives researchers…

Language is unique. It can be seen or heard, it can be diverse or standard. This has been analysed and researched at great length, because of its importance in human communication. Language plays an important role in everybody’s life from the moment they are born. With particular interest in human’s developmental phases of learning. These are from infancy through to adolescence. This importance can be seen through the many theories that have developed around cognitive development and the many…

of God,” Poe is indicating that Montresor is already experiencing the closure he sought. Once he has punished Fortunato to his satisfaction, he can now feel sorry for his victim. Fortunato’s plea is only half-stated: the other half is implied. He means, in effect, “for the love of god, Montresor, have pity…

The rising tone at the end of an utterance is often used for asking yes-no questions and showing politeness or surprise, whereas the falling tone sometimes leads to rudeness and abruptness. A difference in tone changes the meaning of a group of words, phrases and sentence. The tone is used in the following example: if we read this sentence in a rising tone, this sentence means that I can’t hear, please tell again. Although in a falling tone, we will understand…

the global database participants used at the test. After using SPSS it was discovered that the p-value was .000. The mean for digit span when it came to presenting single digits at a time was 7.46. The mean for digit span when it came to presenting group numbers was 8.95. The group number mean was 1.40 higher than the single digit. The mean for the binary single was 7.7 and the mean for letters was…

Chillingworth was her husband and her other faults to Dimmesdale [CE9]. She said "I do forgive you, Hester," replied the minister at length, with a deep utterance, out of an abyss of sadness, but no anger. "I freely forgive you now. May God forgive us both” [E9]. This quote showed forgiveness has to be without anger and with serious intention on our heart. Forgiveness means we forgive and accept one’s fault and will not restate one’s fault in the future [R9]. At the time when Pearl, Hester…

Classroom Language Analysis Teacher’s Role in Questioning and Error-correction Introduction As Raymond Wlodkowski (1986:144) stated, “Any learning activity can become satiating; it happens to everyone, often without any intention on our part. Satiation is what lies behind the ‘divine discontent’ of human existence.”, it is true that learning a second language is an happy but arduous process. To keep pace with this “human nature” as well as the changing educational realities and functional…

any rhetoric or behavior “subversive to its core rationale” (Fish 104). Milton’s outlook on free speech is definitely flawed, however Milton’s perspective alone is not enough for Fish to come to the conclusion that all institutions--whatever that may mean to Fish--push insidious agendas through the speech they allow and disallow. Unfortunately, Fish neglects to acknowledge the fact that Milton can write his beliefs down on paper and send them to Parliament because he is a landed white man, and…

A vast body of research has been dedicated to developing and refining verb argument structure (VAS) therapies for clients with Broca’s aphasia. Many of these studies have focused on using passive or transitive sentence structures to promote generalization and facilitate the speed of recovery. Other studies have focused using VAS in languages of higher morphosyntactic complexity. Regardless of the specific interest of each study, all VAS research has the common goal of improving the production of…

Lucky´s speech is probably the most spectacular part of “Waiting for Godot”, since it presents a complete dissolution of language. But this does not mean that Beckett wrote this piece without any sense, this piece was written with intention, with structure, but it hides between a mix of nonsensical phrases and a lot of repetition, as it will be shown below. The presence of Repetition gives a particular rhythmic sonority, with a lot of unconnected phrases that create a well-planned net to be…