Gender Differences Of Syntactic Development Among English...

Task 1: Summary This journal article, â€Å"Gender Differences in Syntactic Development Among English Speaking Adolescents†, written by Hannah E. Cornett, is adapted from Inquiries Journal/Student Pulse, Vol.6, No.03. The main issue Cornett (2014) researched is â€Å"the gaps in the literature regarding syntactic development in adolescence and reports on the syntactic capabilities and discrepancies between English-speaking adolescent males and females†. According to Cornett (2014), some studies reported that girls have better language abilities than boys in communicative gestures, productive vocabularies, and combining words. Another study (Tse et al., 2002, cited in Cornett, 2014) found significant gender differences between adolescent females and males in syntactic development. Therefore, the author (2014) focused on the discrepancies between girls and boys regarding syntactic aspects of language. To prove her hypothesis, Cornett (2014) researched an experiment which surveyed two groups of adolescents ranging in age from 14 to 15 years old with the similar educational backgrounds and similar socioeconomic status (SES) apart from varied ethnicity. The participants were asked to accomplish Peer Conflict Resolution (PCR) task (Nippold et al. ,2007, cited in Cornett, 2014) in order to elicit language samples for data collection. During the task, they were asked to retell the story in their own words and to include every detail as soon as they could remember (Cornett, 2014).Show MoreRelatedThree Waves of Variation Study14802 Words   |  60 Pageshad been following the mainland trend to lower the nucleus to [É‘]. Labov found that some speakers were reversing this lowering trend, in an apparent move to recapture one of the most salient features of the distinctive island dialect. 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