Gender Differences in Language Use:
An Analysis of 14,000 Text Samples

"When mean sentence length is calculated,women come
out as the wordier gender both in writing (e.g., Mulac & Lundell, 1994; Warshay,
1972) and speaking (Mulac & Lundell, 1986; Mulac et al., 1988; Poole, 1979).
However, men use more words overall and take more “turns” in conversation (e.g.,
Dovidio, Brown, Heltman, Ellyson, & Keating, 1988)."

http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/faculty/pennebaker/reprints/NewmanSexDif2007.pdf

Gender and Conversational Interaction

http://books.google.com/books?id=YJ-wDp7CJYAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Gender+and+Conversational+Interaction&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lXmET4vlJcGogwfOwuTcBw&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Gender%20and%20Conversational%20Interaction&f=false

Phonetic differences between male and female speech

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-818X.2009.00125.x/full

(Reply to this) (Thread)

Great, thanks. Very instructive.

(Reply to this) (Parent)