Intonation seems to be one of the major cues for identifying youth language in the Paris region. As part of a large-scale corpus-based analysis, this paper attempts to model a high-low final prosodic pattern, considered to be representative of a Paris working-class suburbs accent. Comparison with the emphatic high-low prosodic pattern, well-known in general French, will provide the opportunity for sociolinguistic insights. The ethnic hypothesis is dismissed in favor of a context-bound and interaction-sensitive interpretation.