Investigation

Do male presenters change their speech when talking to people of different genders?

• Compare a podcast of a male interviewing a female to another podcast of the same presenter speaking to a male.
• Compare my rsults to  Tannens theory.
• Collecting data on what language features they use with each gender
• Do they change to advice vs understanding etc.
• (For evaluation) Podcast may not be completely reliable because they're aware of recording and questions are planned before hand so not completely natural.

Child language podcast

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07wsmrp

• Children tend to get words wrong when they are learning a language that are domestic words because they're local terms e.g foods, names etc.
• When a child gets a word incorrect it is often easy for the adult to understand what they mean because its so similar to the actual word e.g jumpolines instead of trampolines.
• When we hear word we connect it to words that start with the same sounds e.g log and locks. If we hear the word logs and there is different pictures in front of us, sometimes we look at the picture of keys over logs because keys associate with the word 'lock'.