upspeaker

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From upspeak +‎ -er.

Noun[edit]

upspeaker (plural upspeakers)

  1. One who speaks up; an advocate.
  2. One who speaks with upspeak, or the raising of intonation at the end of statements.
    • 2003, Beverley Collins, Inger M. Mees, Practical Phonetics and Phonology:
      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.
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