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Voice-recognition researchers taught machines that when pitch rises at the end of a sentence, it indicates a question, “only to have their work spoiled by … ‘uptalk’ — that Valley Girl way of making a declarative sentence sound like a question? — which is now ubiquitous across the United States.” (Seabrook.)
I did not know that there was a technical term for the valley girl inflection.
Source: noraleah
