This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills. It focuses on children 7 months old to 6 … scored at -0.13 standard deviations (SD) in language in the distribution of females. In addition, males scored at -0.20 SD in …

choice of the language used in the signs of a shopping street. We work with a dataset containing about 200 observations … the important assumption that multilingualism and the choice of the language (even in a street sign) is an individual and …

comparability, we use the same measure of receptive language ability for all five countries. We find important differences in …

This paper develops a semiotic-inferential model of verbal communication for incomplete information games: a language … common language is used, and an inferential step where the receiver may either trust the message's literal meaning or … equilibria where language is not used in its ordinary sense. The paper also proposes a refinement by which the sender selects …

. In order to communicate they need to have a language in common. Learning languages is costly. In this setting no …

authors, this may lead to a form of cultural domination of English. The population speaking English as a first language is … other language. We develop a theoretical model of translation, which is estimated on the basis of UNESCO translation data …