Table 6 Top 10 words in girls’ imitated masculine 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

‘you’

58

69.71

de ‘a modal particle’

40

48.08

‘I’

36

43.27

hǎo ‘good’

31

37.26

‘also’

22

26.44

好看 hǎokàn ‘good-looking’

22

26.44

这个 zhège ‘this’

21

25.24

hěn ‘very’

20

24.04

你的 nǐde ‘your’

16

19.23

le ‘a particle indicating perfect aspect’

15

18.03