Re: Pitch and tense

Joshua Shinavier wrote:

> Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > Rugpretzel@aol.com writes:
> > >tonight i was talking to a friend who speaks in a raised pitch whenever
> > >talking about something that happened to her,
> > Hmm, is it like she raises her voice at the end of each sentence, almost
> > as if each of them are questions? I notice that that happens a lot with
> > the local latino teenagers around here =).
> Ah, but Aroven likes to do that, too.  Like ending a song on a leading chord;
> it gives you the impression that the speaker has more to say but has just
> stopped for a quick breather, thus keeping the listener alert and awake :-)
I hear it as the ghost of the older "..., you know?"
or "..., right?" It is very infectious, you know?
I am too lazy to go check the archives of alt.usage.english,
but it must have been described somewhere, right?