Overturning the Myth of Valley Girl Speak - 1 views
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Jenni Young on 26 Dec 13Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, took a close look at today's uptalk, popularized during the 1980s as Valley Girl Speak.
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Rhyming slang is nang - 3 views
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The old East End dialect is moving out to Essex, says one academic.
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."
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
My Fair Lady - opening - 0 views
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Video. In the opening scene of My Fair Lady (based on the play Pymalion) Professor Higgins's behaviour shows how we are judged by the way we speak. (jump to 3.50)
More than words - 0 views
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The language we use, and even the sound of our own voice reveals much more about us than we may think.
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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