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em_are_young t1_iz39agi wrote

Reply to comment by garbage-pale-kid in Baby girls babble their way to bigger vocabularies sooner than baby boys, but it’s not because parents talk to them more, instead parents appear to talk more to young children who themselves are already talking, regardless of their gende by giuliomagnifico

This study suggests girls pick up language better even though they aren’t practicing more. Your mechanism could be true only if, like i was suggesting, the study was selecting data that wouldn’t show gender differences even though they are there in the other hours.

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garbage-pale-kid t1_iz39mtk wrote

Practicing more, no, and maybe it doesn't but maybe more time to have internal dialogue counts towards practicing more.

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