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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]
Penelope Eckert. Penelope " Penny " Eckert (born 1942) is Albert Ray Lang Professor Emerita of Linguistics at Stanford University. [ 1][ 2] She specializes in variationist sociolinguistics and is the author of several scholarly works on language and gender. [ 1][ 3] She served as the president of the Linguistic Society of America in 2018. [ 4]
California English (or Californian English) collectively refers to varieties of American English native to California.As California became one of the most ethnically diverse U.S. states, English speakers from a wide variety of backgrounds began to pick up different linguistic elements from one another and also developed new ones; the result is both divergence and convergence within Californian ...
Much of it comes from the ‘Valley Girl accent’ that people like Kim Kardashian use, and then impressionable young creators try to imitate that because they see it as a model of success,” he ...
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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 ...
Southern American English or Southern U.S. English is a regional dialect [ 1][ 2] or collection of dialects of American English spoken throughout the Southern United States, though concentrated increasingly in more rural areas, and spoken primarily by White Southerners. [ 3] In terms of accent, its most innovative forms include southern ...
North American English regional phonology is the study of variations in the pronunciation of spoken North American English (English of the United States and Canada)—what are commonly known simply as "regional accents". Though studies of regional dialects can be based on multiple characteristics, often including characteristics that are ...