17 May 2021

Word - The speech traits of Key, Ardern

From Lately, 8:45 pm on 17 May 2021

We're looking at words on Monday night - all the crazy ways we use them and tonight, two Prime Ministers are under the lens..   The particular way the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern speaks and a thing former Prime Minister, Sir John Key does has many puzzling over. There's even a link with George Bernard Shaw...
Professor Paul Warren of Victoria University's School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies lectures psycholinguistics and experimental phonetics, including intonation. His recent book Uptalk: the phenomenon of rising intonation, explores the use of high rising terminal intonation across varieties of English and in other languages

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Photo: Professor Paul Warren