Newborn Mortality Is Currently About 1 in _____ in the United

question 64

Short Answer

Newborn mortality is currently about 1 in _____ in the United States.

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Definitions:

Mean Length Of Utterance

A measure used in the study of child language acquisition, indicating the average number of morphemes per utterance spoken by a child.

Morphemes

The smallest units of meaning in a language, which can be words or parts of words (like prefixes).

MLU

Mean Length of Utterance, a measure used in the study of child language acquisition indicating the average length of a child's spoken statements.

Overextension

In language acquisition, the use by children of a word in a broader context than is appropriate, indicating the developmental process of understanding linguistic categories.