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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–no questions.
Here, as is common with wh-questions, there is a rising intonation on the question word, and a falling intonation at the end of the question. In many descriptions of English, the following intonation patterns are distinguished: Rising Intonation means the pitch of the voice rises over time. Falling Intonation means that the pitch falls with time.
It can also refer to a low or high intonational tone at the beginning of an utterance or intonational phrase. The term was first introduced in a PhD thesis on English intonation by Mark Liberman in 1975 but without being developed further. [1] It was taken up again in 1980 in another PhD thesis on English intonation by Janet Pierrehumbert. [2]
“The staccato uptick, often called ‘upspeak’ or ‘high rising terminal’ by linguists, is an increasingly common feature of Gen Z dialogue characterized by a rising pitch at the end of ...
Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. [1] All oral languages use pitch to express emotional and other para-linguistic information and to convey emphasis, contrast and other such features in what is called intonation, but not all languages use tones to distinguish words or their inflections, analogously ...
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A high rising terminal in Australian English was noted and studied earlier than in other varieties of English. [citation needed] The feature is sometimes called Australian questioning intonation. Research published in 1986, regarding vernacular speech in Sydney, suggested that high rising terminal was initially spread by young people in the 1960s.