Recent studies have found that women are not 'more polite' than men. Kapoor found that women found swearing to be less appropriate than the men in the study did, but both genders were as likely to use swearwords (Kapoor, 2014).
Polite speech patterns are more associated with women. A close examination of women's vocabulary reveals a high frequency of cordial and gracious words in comparison with men's speech. In other words, women tend to be more affected by the way they speak while men can be more spontaneous.
The main reason why females are better at language learning than males lies in their brains i.e how their brains process the language. The structure of the brain is the same. It's divided into two hemispheres: left (analytical and logic function) and right (musical, visual and non- linguistic processes).
At the same time, feminist researchers have claimed to find that men talk more than women, hogging the floor in public and workplace settings. Yet more scientists have found that no gender difference exists in who talks more.
A new psychology study finds differences in speech patterns between men and women. Men tend to use more abstract language, while women focus more on the details. This tendency is due to power dynamics that can be changed, concluded the researchers.
Men and Women Equally Talkative, Study Finds A recent study has debunked the popular myth that women talk more than men. A research team recorded the conversations of nearly 400 college students to estimate how many words men and women speak each day — and found that there isn't much difference at all.
Gender and Language Acquisition
Gender differences in language use appear early; girls are more likely to use language in the context of emotional relationships with others, while boys are more likely to use language to describe objects and events.
There are some languages that have no gender! Hungarian, Estonian, Finnish, and many other languages don't categorize any nouns as feminine or masculine and use the same word for he or she in regards to humans.
Men showed a slightly wider variability in words uttered, and boasted both the most economical speaker (roughly 500 words daily) and the most verbose yapping at a whopping 47,000 words a day. But in the end, the sexes came out just about even in the daily averages: women at 16,215 words and men at 15,669.
And yet many, if not most, languages across the world divide nouns up by “gender,” often in quite arbitrary ways. Here's a quick primer on this interesting language characteristic, along with some tips and tricks to make learning gendered languages easier.
During this same time period, a number of studies have confirmed past research suggesting that young girls learn language faster and earlier than boys, producing their first words and sentences sooner and accumulating larger vocabularies faster.
Women have shorter vocal cords which vibrate more quickly and produce a higher pitch, while in men the longer vocal cords vibrate with low frequencies giving them deeper voice. Thus, women have high-pitched or shriller voice as compared to men.
Women around the world report higher levels of life satisfaction than men, but at the same time report more daily stress. And while this finding holds across countries on average, it does not hold in countries where gender rights are compromised, as in much of the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa.
From elementary school through college, girls are more disciplined about their schoolwork than boys; they study harder and get better grades. Girls consistently outperform boys academically. And yet, men nonetheless hold a staggering 95 percent of the top positions in the largest public companies.
But research also shows that women are more likely to experience intense positive emotions — such as joy and happiness — compared to men. So it seems that women's more intense positive emotions balance out their higher risk of depression.
Women's brains have higher levels of a “language protein” called FOXP2, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Male students speak in college classrooms 1.6 times as often as women, according to a new academic article published in Gender & Society based on 95 hours of observation in nine classrooms across multiple disciplines at an elite institution.
Research, too, suggests that from an early age, boys speak more than girls – perhaps something to do with the perception they gauge of their role in the family and/or of what they are entitled to.
A system of grammatical gender, whereby every noun was treated as either masculine, feminine, or neuter, existed in Old English, but fell out of use during the Middle English period; therefore, Modern English largely does not have grammatical gender.
There are no gender differences in written Japanese (except in quoted speech), and almost no differences in polite speech (teineigo).
Languages with grammatical gender usually have two to four different genders, but some are attested with up to 20. Common gender divisions include masculine and feminine; masculine, feminine, and neuter; or animate and inanimate.
If you've ever studied a foreign language, you know that in many languages, nouns —even inanimate objects— have grammatical gender. Russian, French, Spanish, and Arabic are all examples of such languages.
Male language is the name of two unrelated languages: Male language (Ethiopia), an Omotic language spoken in southern Ethiopia. Male language (Papua New Guinea), a Madang language. Malê language, also known as Hote. Malé dialect of Maldivian.
According to this study, the tendency toward introversion is so much more marked in women than in men that different percentile scales are necessary for the two sexes.