mean length of utterance

noun

Psycholinguistics.

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

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"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.