CSD 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Stuttering, Problem Of Induction, Steven Pinker

• School: MSU
• Department: Communicative Sciences and Dis
• Course: CSD 333
• Professor: Dilley

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Week 12: around 24 months, toddlers begin to say more than one word in an utterance, (cid:862)mo(cid:373)(cid:373)(cid:455) (cid:271)all(cid:863) or (cid:862)that (cid:271)all(cid:863, the marks the beginning of syntax (two-word stage, roger brown (1925-1997) 11. 2 reflections on roger brown by steven pinker. 11. (cid:1007) i(cid:374)trodu(cid:272)tio(cid:374) to bro(cid:449)(cid:374)(cid:859)s tages: set forth in a first language: the early stages (brown, 1973, semantic relations in one-word speech, based on a longitudinal study of three children given pseudonyms of adam, eve and. 11. 5 rules for calculating mlu: mlu=total number of morphemes/total number of utterances, mlu is calculated from 50-100 spontaneous utterances by a child, spontaneous: the speech that a child spontaneously produces. I(cid:373)itated or read uttera(cid:374)(cid:272)es do(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:272)ou(cid:374)t: brown described rules for calculating mlu. Instructions for calculating mlu: start with the second page of the transcription unless that page involves recitation (recited uttera(cid:374)(cid:272)e like (cid:862)t(cid:449)i(cid:374)kle t(cid:449)i(cid:374)kle(cid:863)(cid:895). I(cid:374) the latter (cid:272)ase, start (cid:449)ith the first re(cid:272)itatio(cid:374)-free stretch.