http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Verbal-Energy/2013/0124/When-young-women-find-their-creaky-voice?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Fcsm+%28Christian+Science+Monitor+%7C+All+Stories%29


By Ruth Walker / January 24, 2013


As Zooey Deschanel, Kim Kardashian, and Britney Spears go, so goeth the English language. Scary thought, no?


As the larger world obsesses with fiscal cliff-hanging, ongoing wars, and the Super Bowl, a smaller group has focused on a language issue: the apparent rise of a phenomenon known as “vocal fry,” or “creaky voice.”


You might think of vocal fry as the counterpart to “uptalk.” You’ve heard of uptalk? It’s where, like, everything sounds like a question? Even when a person is, like,….”