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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]
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.
Varieties of English most popularly associated with California largely correlate with the major urban areas along the coast. Notable is the absence of a distinct /ɔ/ phoneme (the vowel sound of caught, stalk, clawed, etc.), which has completely merged with /ɑ/ (the vowel sound of cot, stock, clod, etc.), as in most of the Western United States.
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?
“Technically, an accent is defined as a distinction in pronunciation, while a dialect is defined as a distinction in pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary,” Schneider told Yahoo News.
Laugh. [MUSIC - FRANK AND MOON ZAPPA, "VALLEY GIRL"] Like totally-- Valley Girl-- Encino is like so bitchen-- Valley Girl-- There's like the Galleria. We'd go back and forth with some ...
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 ...
Valley Girl (Music from the Motion Picture) is the soundtrack to the 2020 film Valley Girl, a remake of the 1983 film of the same name.Released through Interscope Records on May 8, 2020, the album comprises music performed by the cast members Jessica Rothe, Josh Whitehouse, Mae Whitman, Peyton List, Chloe Bennet, Jessie Ennis, Ashleigh Murray and Mario Revolori, and covers performed by Deap ...