AMALIA ARVANITI

In December 2013, my former student Amanda Ritchart presented at the ASA  joint work on the use of uptalk in SoCal English. A lay version of this research can be found at the lay language paper site of the Acoustical Society of America. An updated version, presented at Speech Prosody 7, can be downloaded from here.

 

This research received a lot of attention in the media, such as the BBC's Inside Science, NPR's Science Friday, Time magazine, National Geograhic, Washington Post, and NBC. Amanda and I also received a shoutout from the Linguistic Society of America and an invitation to write a blog post for the Huffington post. Mark Liberman also discussed our uptalk work in the Language Log. 

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I have since published some new work examining the use, spead and function of uptalk in Southern British English. A critical finding is that uptalk frequency and function varies significantly by discourse context. This research was presented at the 2016 Speech Prosody and you can download it from here. My PhD student Alanna Tibbs is researching uptalk in Standard Southern British English.