Differences between girls and boys in emerging language skills: Evidence from 10 language communities

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作者
Eriksson, Marten [1 ]
Marschik, Peter B. [2 ]
Tulviste, Tiia [3 ]
Almgren, Margareta [4 ]
Perez Pereira, Miguel [5 ]
Wehberg, Sonja [6 ]
Marjanovic-Umek, Ljubica [7 ]
Gayraud, Frederique [8 ]
Kovacevic, Melita [9 ]
Gallego, Carlos [10 ]
机构
[1] Univ Gavle, Fac Hlth & Occupat Studies, SE-80176 Gavle, Sweden
[2] Med Univ Graz, Inst Physiol, Ctr Physiol Med, Graz, Austria
[3] Univ Tartu, Inst Psychol, Tartu, Estonia
[4] Univ Basque Country, Vitoria, Spain
[5] Univ Santiago de Compostela, Dept Dev & Educ Psychol, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
[6] Univ So Denmark, Inst Language & Commun, Odense, Denmark
[7] Univ Ljubljana, Dept Psychol, Ljubljana 61000, Slovenia
[8] Univ Lyon, Lyon, France
[9] Univ Zagreb, Lab Psycholinguist Res, Zagreb 41000, Croatia
[10] Univ Complutense Madrid, Dept Psychol, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
基金
奥地利科学基金会;
关键词
SEX-DIFFERENCES; COMMUNICATIVE DEVELOPMENT; PLAY; VOCABULARY; TODDLERS; CHILDREN; SPANISH; ABILITIES; GALICIAN; PARENTS;
D O I
10.1111/j.2044-835X.2011.02042.x
中图分类号
B844 [发展心理学(人类心理学)];
学科分类号
040202 ;
摘要
The present study explored gender differences in emerging language skills in 13,783 European children from 10 non-English language communities. It was based on a synthesis of published data assessed with adapted versions of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs) from age 0.08 to 2.06. The results showed that girls are slightly ahead of boys in early communicative gestures, in productive vocabulary, and in combining words. The difference increased with age. Boys were not found to be more variable than girls. Despite extensive variation in language skills between language communities, the difference between girls and boys remained. This suggests that the difference is caused by robust factors that do not change between language communities.
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页码:326 / 343
页数:18
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