Lesley Wolk

Long Island University

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Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Long Island University

Lesley Wolk on KCRW

The use of slang by women, especially teenage girls, was long thought to be a function of insecurity, immaturity or even stupidity.

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