I’m really just showing off that I’ve finally implemented Unicode posting on my site, but I also wanted to add a footnote of sorts to my last post about language and gender. There is a very particular form of female speech in Taiwan, which while it may not be unique to Taiwan, doesn’t seem to [...]
Mark Liberman goes over the research on language and gender and, looking at one particular language feature, asks whether the empirical evidence really stands up to assertions that women use more “tag questions” in their speech than men. He concludes that the evidence does not support the claim, in fact the opposite is true; however, [...]