Publications

Publication details [#32943]

Ladegaard, Hans J. and Dorthe Bleses. 2003. Gender differences in young children's speech: the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 13 (2) : 222–233.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | gender | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Danish

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

ISBN

0802-6106

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

This study on gender differences in young children's speech, using data from a study of Danish children's acquisition of past-tense morphology, argues that the role-model hypothesis of transmission most adequately explains these differences.