Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction: the interaction of social and biological processes in women's and men's speech Susan U. Philips; Part I. Women's and Men's Speech in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Introduction Susan U. Philips; 1. The womanly woman: manipulation of stereotypical and nonstereotypical features of Japanese female speech Janet S. Shibamoto; 2. The impact of stratification and socialization on men's and women's speech in Western Samoa Elinor Ochs; 3. The interaction of variable syntax and discourse structure in women's and men's speech Susan U. Philips and Anne Reynolds; 4. A diversity of voices: men's and women's speech in ethnographic perspective Joel Sherzer; 5. Women's speech in modern Mexicano Jane H. Hill; Part II. Gender Differences in the Language of Children: Introduction Christine Tanz; 6. Preschool boys' and girls' language use in pretend play Jacqueline Sachs; 7. Sex differences in parent-child interaction Jean Berko Gleason; 8. Children's arguing Marjorie Harness Goodwin and Charles Goodwin; 9. Do different worlds mean different words?: an example from Papua New Guinea Bambi B. Schieffelin; Part III. Sex Differences in Language and the Brain: Introduction Susan Steele; 10. Cerebral organization and sex: interesting but complex Walter F. McKeever; 11. Sex differences in the patterns of scalp-recorded electrophysiological activity in infancy: possible implications for language development David W. Shucard, Janet L. Shucard and David G. Thomas; References; Index.