Table 3 Top 10 words in boys’ normal speech style.

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

Word types

Raw frequency

Relative frequency

你 nǐ ‘you’

118

84.5

真 zhēn ‘really’

76

54.4

的 de ‘a modal particle’

63

45.13

好 hǎo ‘good’

61

43.7

好看 hǎokàn ‘good-looking’

56

40.1

我 wǒ ‘I’

42

30.09

这个 zhège ‘this’

36

25.79

你的 nǐde ‘your’

33

23.64

买 mǎi ‘buy’

22

15.76

啊 a ‘ah’

21

15.04

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