Women's speech: Separate but unequal?
- 1 February 1974
- journal article
- other
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Quarterly Journal of Speech
- Vol. 60 (1) , 14-24
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00335637409383203
Abstract
The stereotype concepts of the way women speak offer a rich variety of hypotheses to test. Some of these hypotheses are that women talk more than men, have a more limited vocabulary, have a more irregular sentence structure, ask more questions, and use more adjectives, adverbs, and hyperbole.Keywords
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