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upspeaker en · NOUN

Etymology

From upspeak + -er.

Meanings

1. One who speaks up; an advocate.
2. One who speaks with upspeak, or the raising of intonation at the end of statements.
   • The upspeak rule is applied non-systematically, i.e. upspeakers do not convert all RP falling tones to rising tones, even where the structural conditions for the operation of the rule are fulfilled. 2003, Beverley Collins, Inger M. Mees, Practical Phonetics and Phonology:

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