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uptalk
noun[ U ]
language specializeduk /ˈʌp.tɔːk/ us /ˈʌp.tɑːk/
a way of speaking in which your voice rises at the end of a phrase: 用升调讲话
Uptalk has spread far beyond California and the Valley Girls who are supposed to have started it.用升调讲话已经远远不再是加州和「谷女郎」的专利，虽然据说是她们开始了这种说话方式。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Ways of speaking
accented
accentual
accentuation
aitch
articulate
asperity
asyndetic
asyndetically
bray
fluent
intone
mispronounce
non-metaphorical
non-verbal
non-verbally
orthoepy
paralanguage
pronounce
singsong
toned
Examples of uptalk
uptalk
Uptalk relies on just this kind of rise, and is not interchangeable with a rise which starts low and ends high.
Uptalk relies on just this kind of rise, and is not interchangeable with a rise which starts low and ends high.
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