Children's gender indexing in language: From the separate worlds hypothesis to considerations of culture, context, and power

Research on Language and Social Interaction

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-13

  Kyratzis, Amy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0035624887     PISSN: 08351813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327973RLSI3401_1     Document Type: Article

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