Table 5 Top 10 words in girls’ normal 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’

93

77.82

的 de ‘a modal particle’

74

61.92

很 hěn ‘very’

39

32.64

好 hǎo ‘good’

37

30.96

真 zhēn ‘really’

31

25.94

你的 nǐde ‘your’

29

24.27

好看 hǎokàn ‘good-looking’

28

23.43

这个 zhège ‘this’

23

19.25

可爱 kěài ‘adorable’

22

18.41

可真 kězhēn ‘so’

22

18.41

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