Speech Analysis
The language sample that was analyzed was taken from a child 4 years and 11 months old. The recording took place in the child’s bedroom, and I was the only other person present. The sample analysis is based on approximately 15 minutes of speech or 50 utterances. After transcribing the sample, I first calculated the Type Token Ratio (TTR). The Type Token Ratio measures the child’s lexical diversity. It is calculated by dividing the total number of different words by the total number of words. Your result is then compared to normative data. The Type Token Ratio of my language sample was .424, resulting from the total number of 135 different words divided by the total number of 318 words. Comparing my result to the norm of a child about the same age, there is a difference of .03. This means that the Type Token Ratio of my language sample is not significantly under the mean. The child has about the same lexical diversity as most children her age. The second analysis was a measure of the child’s grammatical or syntactic development. This was determined by finding the Mean Length Utterance (MLU). The Mean Length Utterance can be found by first adding up the total number of morphemes (basic unit of meaning) in the
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