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Article: Sex differences in historical syntax: Early Modern English testimonies in the ms minutes of the court of governors of the royal hospitals of bridewell and Bethlem 1559-1599. A pilot study.(Statistical Data Included)
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- Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
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- January 1, 1997
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Introduction
Do men and women speak differently? Did they speak differently from each other in the past? The first question has provoked much work in recent decades, mostly within the domains of discourse analysis and phonology. Early studies concluded that women do speak differently: they approximate closer to the standard norm than men, they use more tags, and interrupt less than men (see, for example, Trudgill (1974) for the first finding, and Lakoff (1975) for the others). Tannen (1993) and Coates - Cameron (1988) provide overviews of subsequent studies, but both conclude that the assumptions that seemed reasonable in the seventies are probably premature. It ...
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