Sex News
February, 1979
Yakety-YakTrue or false? Girls talk earlier than boys. In the Thirties and Forties, studies gave girls the edge; but later research indicated no sex differences in speech. Now Columbia University's Barnard College Toddler Center says that female tots excel in "mean length of utterance." That's not rude gossip, it's a measure of word skills. The Barnard researchers explain that the previous studies showing no difference used inferior testing techniques. Their work gives girls the first...
