Infant boys are more vocal than infant girls
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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.
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In the general population, male children produce more protophones than female children in the first year of life.
“In the general population, recent research unexpectedly revealed that male children produce more ‘protophones’ (that is, speech-like vocalizations) than female children in the first year of life140.”
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- Authors
- Oller, D. K., Griebel, U., Bowman, D. D., Bene, E., Long, H. L., Yoo, H., & Ramsay, G.
- Affiliations
- Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (AT)
- University of Memphis (US)
- University of Alabama (US)
- Emory University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Oller, D. Kimbrough
- Venue
- Current Biology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-05
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- R426-R427
- ISSN
- 0960-9822 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC8204662
- OpenAlex
- W3024177391
- Cited by
- 36
- References
- 11
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 6.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Current Biology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology › Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Keywords
- infant vocalizations, sex differences, infant language development, autism risk, infant crying, first year of life, origin of language, sex differences in language
- MeSH terms
- Female, Humans, Infant, Language Development, Male, Sex Factors, Speech Production Measurement, Verbal Behavior
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