Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 10:00:39 -0500

From: Mark Mandel Mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DRAGONSYS.COM

Subject: "uptalk" -Reply (Cindie McLemore)



Cindie (Cynthia) McLemore works (currently part-time) for the Linguistic

Data Consortium, which operates out of UPenn, and can be reached by

email at cam[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]unagi.cis.upenn.edu.



Mark A. Mandel : mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]dragonsys.com

Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200

320 Nevada St., Newton, MA 02160, USA : http://www.dragonsys.com/



Peter L. Patrick PPATRICK[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUVAX.ACC.GEORGETOWN.EDU

0919.2359

David Britain's refs were a very helpful resource. However he left off

the work of Cindie McLemore, whose diss. at U.Texas-Austin was about

1990 I think-- I can send a fuller ref.

[...]

One of the things Cindie has pointed out is how widespread it is, and

how malleable to social function-- she studied a Texas sorority where it

obviously couldn't "mean" the identity "young white female" since every

single member was obviously that. Btw, it was her on NPR a couple

years ago; last I knew you could reach her via email at UPenn.

--peter patrick

georgetown u.