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Rote vs. Rule-based language

Dec 05, 2006 09:33

Hartshorne and Ullman (2006), testing hypotheses about how males and females learned language, expected to find that girls "regularized" irregular verbs (like "holded" instead of "held") less often than boys. They found just the opposite; girls used "holded" more often than boys. Ullman's theory about declarative vs. procedural language learning ( Read more... )

gender, r m j catalan, development, children, vocabulary, language, girls, boys, language acquisition, toddlers, carol van hulle, joshua hartshorne, michael ullman

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differenceblog December 5 2006, 15:38:23 UTC

whoops, yes.

They expected fewer, got more. I will fix.

differenceblog December 5 2006, 15:41:54 UTC

I wonder if one sex makes more sign errors than the other.