Infant boys are more vocal than infant girls

Infant boys are more vocal than infant girls

Although it is generally assumed females have a language advantage over males, Oller et al., studying all-day recordings of 100 infants, found that boys in the first year of life produced more speech-like vocalizations than girls and that the effect size was more than four times larger than the comm...

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Veröffentlicht in:Current biology 2020-05, Vol.30 (10), p.R426-R427
Hauptverfasser: Oller, D. Kimbrough, Griebel, Ulrike, Bowman, Dale D., Bene, Edina, Long, Helen L., Yoo, Hyunjoo, Ramsay, Gordon
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Although it is generally assumed females have a language advantage over males, Oller et al., studying all-day recordings of 100 infants, found that boys in the first year of life produced more speech-like vocalizations than girls and that the effect size was more than four times larger than the commonly reported female language advantage.
ISSN:0960-9822
1879-0445
DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2020.03.049