{"id":722,"date":"2013-12-06T16:14:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T00:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=722"},"modified":"2013-12-06T16:14:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T00:14:01","slug":"you-talk-just-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2013\/12\/06\/you-talk-just-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"You talk just fine?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When teaching oral communications to my students, I don’t feel comfortable critiquing those who speak in “uptalk,<\/a>” that habit of ending sentences with a rising inflection so that declarative sentences sometimes seem to sound like questions. To me that would be like asking people to change their maritime or southern accents: snobby and obnoxious.<\/p>\n

At any rate, the folk at Language Log are on the case<\/a>. It turns out that research has shown “uptalkers” up their talk<\/em> earlier and higher in sentences when they are asking questions than when they are making statements.<\/p>\n

That is, a good listener should be able to de-code uptalkers’ tones successfully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When teaching oral communications to my students, I don’t feel comfortable critiquing those who speak in “uptalk,” that habit of ending sentences with a rising inflection so that declarative sentences sometimes seem to sound like questions. To me that would … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-audience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}