Why might American girls show more advanced verbal ability than American boys?
a. Parents talk less to infant daughters than they do to infant sons.
b. Girls rely more on verbal skills in interacting with others.
c. Skills, such as reading, are stereotyped as masculine in the United States.
d. Boys in the United States do not begin formal reading instruction until at least one year after girls..
b
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