Fig. 3: The mean relative frequency of the use of intensifiers in children’s compliments. | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Fig. 3: The mean relative frequency of the use of intensifiers in children’s compliments.

From: Stylistic and linguistic variations in compliments: an empirical analysis of children’s gender schema development with machine learning algorithms

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It is demonstrated that the girls used almost equally more intensifiers in both their normal speech style and the designed imitating tasks. On the other hand, boys used much fewer intensifiers in their normal speech style. They increased using intensifiers when intimating girls’ speech. But the average frequency of the use of intensifiers by boys, even after such an increase in the imitating tasks, is still below the level of the frequency of use by girls.

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