But this stereotype is unfounded. As a recent New York Times story shows, scholars have found that the rising tone is not exclusive (专有的) to young women.
According to the researchers, rather than indicating insecurity, uptalk is often used to implicitly ask the listener to confirm that the speaker is being understood. Uptalk can also serve a strategic purpose in which the speaker, anticipating an interruption by the listener, tries to prevent it by using a rising tone at the end of a statement.
We needn’t go into all the technical details. How people speak is influenced by many factors.We can’t
measure someone’s intellectual depth by their accent. But social stereotypes, though unjustified, are powerful.
Many English native speakers find uptalk annoying. Lake Bell, a US actress and director, was a strong voice in 2013 speaking against what she referred to as “sexy baby vocal virus”. Bell wrote, directed and starred in In a World last year, a movie about voiceover artists. She told NPR in an interview last July: “I can’t have people around me that speak that way, and mainly because I am a woman, I grew up thinking a female voice should sound sophisticated and elegant, not a 12yearold little girl that is submissive (顺从的) to the male species.”
As fond of US TV dramas as you may be, uptalk is probably the least desirable accent you want to pick up as an English learner.
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