Infant boys are more vocal than infant girls

Authors

D. Kimbrough Oller, University of Memphis
Ulrike Griebel, University of Memphis
Dale D. Bowman, University of Memphis
Edina Bene, University of MemphisFollow
Helen L. Long, University of Memphis
Hyunjoo Yoo, The University of AlabamaFollow
Gordon Ramsay, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Abstract

Although it is generally assumed females have a language advantage over males, Oller et al., studying all-day recordings of 100 infants, found that boys in the first year of life produced more speech-like vocalizations than girls and that the effect size was more than four times larger than the commonly reported female language advantage.

Publication Title

Current Biology

Recommended Citation

Oller, D., Griebel, U., Bowman, D., Bene, E., Long, H., Yoo, H., & Ramsay, G. (2020). Infant boys are more vocal than infant girls. Current Biology, 30 (10), R426-R427. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.03.049