Abstract:In recent years, a great deal of attention has been paid to the use of rises on non-question utterances in American English, as well as other English varieties. However, little attention has been paid to this phenomenon in the speech of children acquiring American English (AmEng). Here we analyze elicited spontaneous speech from four mother-daughter pairs in Central Connecticut. Both mothers and daughters were asked to tell a short story to the experimenter, since the "uptalk" phenomenon has been shown to be c… Show more
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