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Adults’ Perception of Gender in Child Speech

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Results

Subjects were above chance in identifying whether voices belonged to boys or girls, with no difference in rates of correct identification by gender:






Some children were labeled correctly more often than others:

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Reaction times were slower for girls than for boys, significantly so when girls were judged to be boys:


B= Boys correctly identified; G = Girls correctly identified
BG = Boys identified as girls; GB = Girls identified as boys