They might be named after their female protagonists – but it seems that female characters don’t speak quite as much in Disney movies as their titles would suggest.
In fact, a new study by linguists revealed that the majority of lines in many of the classic cartoons named after princesses and the like are spoken by the male characters.
Carmen Fought and Karen Eisenhauer discovered that some of the modern films are among the worst offenders, with 77 per cent of the dialogue in Pocahontas spoken by men, and 76 per cent in Mulan (both… Read the full story
