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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute?

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"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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I'm sure you're, like, totally familiar with "valley speak",

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in which speakers end phrases with a rising pitch, so they sound like questions?

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The phenomenon's called "uptalk" and it's not just for valley girls.

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Linguists say guys now uptalk, too.

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Researchers studied the speech of 12 female and 11 male native southern Californians.

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The volunteers had two tasks: to recount the plot of a TV episode, and to give directions.

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"Start at the college..keep going, towards the grocery store"

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Overall, women used uptalk twice as often as men.

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Both sexes finished a sixth of their statements with a rising pitch.

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But women exclusively also used uptalk to signal they were still speaking to hold the floor.

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The researchers presented their findings at a recent meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.

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The results suggest uptalk has transcended its traditional demographic...valley girls...to catch on with men.

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But no word yet whether other elements of the vernacular have followed suit.

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"Barf out! Gross! Gag me!"

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.

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