Gendered speech development in early childhood: Evidence from a longitudinal study of vowel and consonant acoustics.
Adults rate the speech of children assigned male at birth (AMAB) and assigned female at birth (AFAB) as young as 2.5 years of age differently on a scale of definitely a boy to definitely a girl (Munson et al., 2022), despite the lack of consistent sex dimorphism in children's speech production mecha...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child Language Vol. 53; no. 4; pp. 759 - 787 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jul2026
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