Researchers have found that male infants “talk” more than females in the first year, despite the long-held belief that females have an advantage over males in language.
Babies make squeals, vowel-like sounds, and other short sounds. While some infants are naturally more talkative than others, a new study in the open access journal iScience finds that there are differences between boys and girls in the number of this preliminary speech of theirs.
The researchers, led by Kimbrow Ohler of the University of Memphis, found that male infants “talk” more than females during the first year, despite a long-held belief that females have an advantage over males in language.
However, this early advantage of male infants in language development does not last. By the end of the second year the girls had caught up and surpassed the boys. Overall the data showed that male infants used 10% more speech utterances during the first year compared to females. In the second year, female infants spoke 7% more than male infants.
For the above findings, the researchers used more than 450,000 hours of all-day recordings from 5,899 infants.
Source :Skai
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