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Jenni Young

Overturning the Myth of Valley Girl Speak - 1 views

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    Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, took a close look at today's uptalk, popularized during the 1980s as Valley Girl Speak.
Jenni Young

Linguists explain how to tell statements from questions in Valley Girl talk - 0 views

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    Amanda Ritchart is a native speaker of Southern Californian English, the dialect also known as "Valley Girl talk" - you know, the one that's like totally full of the word "like."
Jenni Young

Do We All Speak Like Valley Girls? Uptalk in Southern Californian English - 0 views

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    Academic paper analysing the Southern Californian dialect
Jenni Young

BBC News - The unstoppable march of the upward inflection? - 0 views

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    The habit of making statements sound like questions is a genuine linguistic mystery.
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    The habit of making statements sound like questions is a genuine linguistic mystery.
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