Children's speech accommodation to gendered language styles

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 321-333

  Robertson, Kirsten ^a   Murachver, Tamar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Gender; Interpersonal communication; Sex roles

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141707737     PISSN: 0261927X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261927X03255304     Document Type: Article

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