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Solving the Mystery of Mother-Daughter Speak

NPR | By Susan Stamberg
Published January 25, 2006 at 12:28 PM EST

In her 1990 best-selling book, You Just Don't Understand, linguist Deborah Tannen argued that men and women speak different languages. In her new book, Tannen takes on the complicated relationship between mothers and daughters.

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Susan Stamberg
Nationally renowned broadcast journalist Susan Stamberg is a special correspondent for NPR.
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