Table 4 Top 10 words in boys’ imitated feminine speech.

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’

73

61.04

好 hǎo ‘good’

65

54.35

我 wǒ ‘I’

53

44.31

真 zhēn ‘really’

49

40.97

的 de ‘a modal particle’

45

37.63

好看 hǎokàn ‘good-looking’

42

35.12

这个 zhège ‘this’

33

27.59

跳 tiào ‘jump’

29

24.25

也 yě ‘also’

27

22.58

买 mǎi ‘buy’

23

19.23

你的 nǐde ‘your’

23

19.23

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