Austria 3

Listen to Austria 3, a 32-year-old man from St. Valentin and Vienna, Austria. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 32

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 04/04/1977

PLACE OF BIRTH: Steyr, in upper Austria (but raised in St. Valentin)

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Caucasian (Austrian)

OCCUPATION: student

EDUCATION: 14 years of college, currently seeking Ph.D.

AREA(S) OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject lived in Vienna, Austria, for nine years, and Lawrence, Kansas, in the United States, for five years. He was raised in St. Valentin, Austria.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: Julie Bayliff

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 03/05/2009

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I was born in upper Austria in a town called Steyr, but I was raised, uh, approximately twenty kilometers away from, from there in a lovely town of, uh, St. Valentin, um, yea; uh, I went to elementary school there, and later on I went to high school back to, uh, back in Steyr; and while I was in Steyr, I decided I wanted to, uh, go on and, uh, study biology, so when I was 18, I went to Vienna, started biology to become a high school teacher. Uh, approximately, uh, halfway through my biology studies, I went on a field trip, uh, with, uh, geologists from University of Vienna, and after that I decided to add a geology study, and, yea, after all nine years at University of Vienna, I finished uh my degrees in geology and biology, and got an offer to go on with a PH.D in Lawrence at KU, accepted and now five years later I’m still at KU and try to finish up my PH.D this summer; and so far was a great time, and, yea, I hope afterwards I will find a nice job and maybe stay in the U.S. or go back to Austria. I don’t know yet.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Julie Bayliff

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 03/05/2009

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