Dictionary.com

Popular Searches

 Thesaurus.com

mean length of utterance

American  

noun

Psycholinguistics.

  1. the mean number of morphemes produced per sentence, used especially as a measure of child language development. MLU

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

"We found that increased use of acetaminophen -- especially during the third trimester -- was associated with smaller vocabulary scores and shorter 'mean length of utterance' at two years," Woodbury said.

From Science Daily

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.