Baby boys babble more than girls, according to a scientific paper out Wednesday that upends a common belief that females hold a language advantage over males early on in life.
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They say it might be the result of an important sex difference that emerged during our species' evolution. While young babies don't talk, they produce pre-speech vocalizations— squeals, growls, raspberries, and later word-like sounds such as "ba" and "ga"—collectively called "protophones" that eventually give way to real words and sentences.
One theory for the finding was that male infants were more vocal because they were more active in general. But the data did not support this, since higher male vocalizations gave way to females around the 16-month mark, but higher physical activity did not.
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