1976 Variety 11 Feb. 82/1 Roz Clark sticks to a theme in her repertoire, her role as woman and lover, offering some uptalk between verses of ‘I'm A Woman’ and dedicating love tunes to the man in her life.

1993 J. Gorman in N.Y. Times Mag. 15 Aug. 14/4 Although uptalk has been most common among teen-agers, in particular young women, it seems to be spreading.

1998 J. L. Locke Why we don't talk Anymore i. 31 In ‘uptalk’ there is a tendency to raise the pitch of the voice at the end of declarative statements or to add ‘okay’ with a rising tone, as in a question.

2005 J. Weiner Goodnight Nobody xxx. 254 He raised his voice to a savage, lisping Valley Girlish uptalk, ‘Hi, you don't know me? But my name is Kate Klein, and my husband works for your husband?’

2014 Wired May 32/3 Some people make statements? But end them as if they're questions? That's ‘uptalk’.

1993 Herald Sun (Melbourne) 20 Nov. 16/5 Our three-year-old daughter has ‘uptalked’ me twice in recent weeks... By the time she's at school, I expect all her statements will have turned into questions.

2001 Guardian 21 Sept. ii. 3/4 Yep, she was uptalking: in a matter of days, she had evolved from Estuarial English-speaking Londoner into Californian Valley Girl. Or Aussie Soap Wannabe. Whatever.

2007 C. Daniels Ghettonation iii. 80 Reminded me of the way women in the office tend to ‘uptalk’ or raise their voice an octave at the end of their sentences.

2014 Wired (Nexis) May 32 Women uptalked nearly twice as much as men.

1993 in Amer. Speech (1994) 69 185 The fashionable term for it is uptalking... People may think that uptalk conveys uncertainty... In any case it's spreading.

2015 R. McKinnon Norms of Assertion xi. 227 That typical interpretation of uptalking—that the speaker is indicating doubt about their assertion—is inaccurate.