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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute?
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2 ."So like I go into this like salon place, y'know/ And I wanted like to get my toenails done/ And the lady like goes, oh my god, your toenails/ Are like so grody]
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3 .I'm sure you're, like, totally familiar with "valley speak",
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4 .in which speakers end phrases with a rising pitch, so they sound like questions?
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5 .The phenomenon's called "uptalk" and it's not just for valley girls.
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6 .Linguists say guys now uptalk, too.
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7 .Researchers studied the speech of 12 female and 11 male native southern Californians.
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8 .The volunteers had two tasks: to recount the plot of a TV episode, and to give directions.
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9 ."Start at the college..keep going, towards the grocery store"
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10 .Overall, women used uptalk twice as often as men.
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11 .Both sexes finished a sixth of their statements with a rising pitch.
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12 .But women exclusively also used uptalk to signal they were still speaking to hold the floor.
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13 .The researchers presented their findings at a recent meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.
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14 .The results suggest uptalk has transcended its traditional demographic...valley girls...to catch on with men.
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15 .But no word yet whether other elements of the vernacular have followed suit.
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16 ."Barf out! Gross! Gag me!"
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17 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
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