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The Emergence of Gender Associations in Child Language Development.

Ben Prystawski¹, Erin Grant², Aida Nematzadeh³

¹Department of Psychology, Stanford University.

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Keywords:

Child speech Gender association Language and gender Language development Social change Word embedding

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Background:

Gender associations are learned early in childhood.
The developmental emergence of these associations is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

Investigate how gender associations manifest in the language of children aged 1-5.
Compare societal gender associations with those in children's linguistic environments.

Main Methods:

Utilized machine learning word embeddings from large text corpora to represent societal gender associations.
Analyzed 4,875 natural conversations between children and caretakers.
Quantified gender associations in childhood language using gender probability.

Main Results:

Childhood language word usage patterns strongly correlate with societal gender associations.
These correlations showed a diminishing trend from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Both caretaker and child speech reflected these gendered patterns.

Conclusions:

Early linguistic communication and societal shifts jointly influence childhood gender association formation.
Language plays a crucial role in shaping children's understanding of gender.
Observed changes suggest evolving societal gender norms reflected in language.