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Women and men differ systematically in the type of sentence structures they prefer, in their intonation patterns used with main and subordinate clauses and in their use of subordinate clauses when expressing high or low commitment to what they are saying.
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Gender differences in syntax are largely due to status differences. Certain sentence types favoured by women come to be frequent in men's speech too, when men are placed in a lower-status setting, i.e. as applicants in application interviews.
Professor Britta Mondorf
University of Mainz
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This page is a summary of: Gender Differences in English Syntax, Journal of English Linguistics, June 2002, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/007242030002005.
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