l ties, whereas the socialization of girls goes to an INNER SPHERE where family and domestic matters and child care are the most important issues of life (Richardson & Simpson, 1982). In addition, it is well known that boys often pretend that they are involved in exciting adventures, whereas girls' PLAY takes place on the home ground, so to speak, and their PLAY can be described as "peaceful and domestic." Since such different PLAY scenes obviously demand different verbal skills, the best are taken by the boys. Girls either PLAY mother-and-child or pretend to be princesses or film stars; they simply repeat what they have heard adult females say, which is a reproducing process leading to nothing but verbal fluency. Boys' adventure PLAY on "alien grounds" it is not quite so easy; they may darken their voices to try to sound like Daddy (who represents adult males in general), but Daddy's conversation is far too unimaginative, uninteresting for a strange adventure, so t
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