Table 9 Most frequent adjectives in girls’ normal speech style.

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

Adjectives

Raw frequency

Relative frequency

好看 hǎokàn ‘good-looking’

27

22.68

可爱 kěài ‘adorable’

22

18.49

好 hǎo ‘good’

15

12.61

厉害 lìhai ‘remarkable’

12

10.08

漂亮 piàoliang ‘pretty’

11

9.24

帅 shuài ‘handsome’

6

5.04

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