Fig. 4: The mean relative frequency of the use of ASFPs in Children’s compliments. | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Fig. 4: The mean relative frequency of the use of ASFPs 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 much more intensifiers in their normal speech style and used dramatically fewer ASFPs in the designed imitating tasks. Boys used much fewer ASFPs in their normal speech style and increased using ASFPSs when intimating girls’ speech, but the average frequency of the use of ASFPs by boys, even in the imitating tasks, is lower than the level of the frequency of use by girls in normal speech.

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