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Publication details [#36464]

Cutler, Anne and Donia R. Scott. 1990. Speaker sex and perceived apportionment of talk. Applied Psycholinguistics 11 (3) : 253–272.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

sex | sociology | speaker | speech perception | women's vs. men's language

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0142-7164

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper emphasizes that there is no evidence to support the widespread belief that women talk more than men. Listener misestimates may be due to several factors such as misjudgment of speech rates and attitudes towards social roles and perception of relations of power.