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Valley girl. A valley girl is a socioeconomic, linguistic, and youth subcultural stereotype and stock character originating during the 1980s: any materialistic upper-middle-class young woman, associated with unique vocal and California dialect features, from the Los Angeles commuter communities of the San Fernando Valley. [1]
My true voice is a Valley girl voice, but I hide it because people respect me less when I use Valleyspeak. Why does the accent that brings me comfort have to be so stigmatized?
Valley Girl (song) "Valley Girl" is a song by American musician Frank Zappa, released as the sole single from his 1982 album Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch and featuring his then-14-year-old daughter Moon.
The high rising terminal ( HRT ), also known as rising inflection, upspeak, uptalk, or high rising intonation ( HRI ), is a feature of some variants of English where declarative sentences can end with a rising pitch similar to that typically found in yes-or-no questions. HRT has been claimed to be especially common among younger speakers and ...
But as Moon chats with Yahoo Entertainment to celebrate “Valley Girl’s” 40th anniversary reissue campaign — which includes a new animated music video, merchandise line, and remix by ...
Valley girl-speak stereotypes are known to be a distinctive Californian cultured dialect. California women are known for valley-girl language, whereas California men are known for their pitch rising throughout their sentences following a plateau. Uptalk also occurs later in their phrases and Eckert is known to analyze uptalk in detail.
A child model at age 4 and an actress by 7, McCormack's career took off with the release of 1956's "The Bad Seed," the film that earned her numerous accolades. (She also starred in the same role ...
Valley Girl is a 1983 American teen romantic comedy film directed by Martha Coolidge and written and produced by Wayne Crawford and Andrew Lane. Loosely based on the tragedy Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare , the film centers on the romance between a valley girl (Deborah Foreman) and a city punk (Nicolas Cage).