Grammar policing children
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract In western societies, women’s speech tends to be scrutinized/policed more than men’s, with stigmatized features like uptalk, creaky voice, and the discourse marker like associated primarily with women (despite also being used by men). Here, we explored the developmental roots of this phenomenon, asking whether girls’ speech is scrutinized more than that of boys. Caregivers of Canadian English- speaking 3- to 5-year-olds ( N = 194) were asked how they would respond to their child making a salient grammatical error. Caregivers of girls were more likely to report using explicit correction strategies compared to caregivers of boys. Caregivers’ reported strategies were unrelated to children’s morphosyntactic knowledge. We discuss our results within the context of sociolinguistic development and the acquisition of gendered language ideologies.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.020 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it