Valley Girl
A Valley Girl is a young woman from the San Fernando Valley in Southern California, associated with a particular speech pattern and materialistic, airheaded persona that emerged in the 1980s.
The stereotype features uptalk, vocal fry, and filler words like like, totally, and oh my God.
Valley girl now describes anyone who talks or acts this way, regardless of geography: She sounds like such a valley girl.
- uptalkStatement-ending pitch rise
- teenagerPerson aged thirteen-nineteen
- stereotypeFixed oversimplified notion
- sociolectLanguage variety by group
- accentRegional speech pattern
vocal fry · speech pattern · mall · lingo · mall culture · shopping spree · ditzy · materialism · dialect · lifestyle · catchphrase · slang · SoCal · English · Sixteen Candles · Frank Zappa · Gen X · fashion
- CaliforniaLos Angeles, San Francisco, Hollywood, San Diego, Yosemite
- American dialectsregional accents, Boston accent, New York accent, Midwest accent, Texas twang
- California Slangdude, hella, gnarly, rad, stoked
- dialectsregional dialect, local dialect, patois, vernaculars, vernacular
- speech soundsvowel, diphthong, nasal, monophthong, vocal folds
Valley Girlblue-collar worker
Manual labor employee
intellectual · goth · punk · nerd · hippie
Valley Girlprofessor
Senior university teacher
newscaster · scholar · Rhodes Scholar · intellectual · academic
Valley Girlcountry girl
Female from rural areas
Southern belle · hillbilly · redneck · farm girl · Appalachian
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