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.
betterthancupcakes reblogged this from noraleah and added:
Five episdoe about this back in...day. I think they called it ”upspeak” though. Ever since...
alohanico reblogged this from onemoretimewithfeeling and added:
I did not know that there was a technical term for the valley girl inflection.
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