England 79

Listen to England 79, a 23-year-old woman from Farringdon, central London, England. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 23

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1984

PLACE OF BIRTH: central London

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: white

OCCUPATION: student

EDUCATION: university

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

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject’s father is from Glasgow, Scotland, and while this does not appear to have influenced her accent, she feels that his general articulatory habits may have impacted her own speech.

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RECORDED BY: Marina Tyndall

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 18/01/2008

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

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DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I’m 23; my, I was born in central London somewhere, I don’t know exactly where, somewhere I- I live currently Farringdon, between Farringdon and Chancery Lane, erm, and I- I’ve stayed in that place my whole life. My dad’s got a very very strong Glasgow accent, but I can’t even mimic it at all except for like one thing, and when we were little we always use to go to G-like-Glasgow for like, four, five times a year, but we- it was only for couple of weeks; we never stayed up there for long. And, erm, I think that’s why I’m very lazy in the way I talk. Because like s- they don’t- uh, I don’t know my dad — it’s hard to understand what he’s saying; I don’t know whether Scottish people use their tongue less or more, but like my- I have a really lazy tongue where, I have to really try and over-pronounciate [sic] the words otherwise they’ll just come up like “wlerlerwreuhh.” Erm, so that’s something since I started this course I’ve been trying to work on is trying to speak properly, and like pronounciate [sic] and speak clearer and slower ‘cause I can have a real tendency just to speak fast, and it all comes out and you’ve probably seen that in the classes as well, like me just going “beuberlughberluhhrluuh.” Erm, and some people say I sound like I’m from South London, but I’ve never lived in South London. Steve said that, and I don’t think that’s true. Erm, and yeah, I don’t I don’t think I sound like I’m from South London … but then I don’t actually know what South London people sound like. Erm, so yeah. The end. [laughter]

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SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY:

Listen for very open COMMA and LETTER vowels, and labiodental substitutions on dental fricatives.

COMMENTARY BY: Marina Tyndall

DATE OF COMMENTARY (DD/MM/YYYY): 18/01/2008

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