Infant boys are more vocal than infant girls.

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.

SUBMITTER: Oller DK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8204662 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature