Women and Language in Australian and New Zealand SocietyAnne Pauwels Language and gender research including role of Aboriginal women in language change and language maintenance; paper by Jakelin Troy on Aboriginal women and contact languages separately annotated. |
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... boys are more likely to appear singly , as individuals , than are girls . To test this we can compare the appearance rates of the singular and plural forms of boy / s and girl / s . It turns out , as predicted , that boy appears ...
... boys are more likely to appear singly , as individuals , than are girls . To test this we can compare the appearance rates of the singular and plural forms of boy / s and girl / s . It turns out , as predicted , that boy appears ...
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... boy / s uses of the verb like is applied to inanimate objects such as food and toys . That is , through the use of an expression of liking , girls are attached to the animate world , in particular the world of pets , while boys are ...
... boy / s uses of the verb like is applied to inanimate objects such as food and toys . That is , through the use of an expression of liking , girls are attached to the animate world , in particular the world of pets , while boys are ...
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... boys for what the missionaries described as social and educational reasons . Girls , more than boys , were considered to be in need of the moral and physical protection of the missionaries . The education of boys was an outdoors process ...
... boys for what the missionaries described as social and educational reasons . Girls , more than boys , were considered to be in need of the moral and physical protection of the missionaries . The education of boys was an outdoors process ...
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Notes on contributors iv | 5 |
research in New Zealand | 32 |
Sex differences in intergroup and intragroup | 45 |
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