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
Photo: Professor Paul Warren
