Iran 5

Listen to Iran 5, a 35-year-old man from Shiraz, Iran. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 35

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 19/11/1967

PLACE OF BIRTH: Shiraz, Iran

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Iranian (exact ethnicity unknown)

OCCUPATION: physician

EDUCATION: The subject attended college and medical school.

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

As a child, the subject lived in the United States for a year, and at the time of the interview was living in the United States.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

Subject has spent most of his life in Iran.

The text used in our recordings of scripted speech can be found by clicking here.

RECORDED BY: Travis Ashmore (under the supervision of Paul Meier)

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 01/12/2002

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I was born in November 19th, 1967, in Shiraz, and I grew up there in Shiraz. I … but we traveled to few cities around Shiraz, mm, when I was a kid, and after that I attended primary school or elementary school, and then, uh, when I was about 11 years old I came here to States, and stayed here for about a year. And then, uh, I went back to Iran and studied there, and continued studying there, and after that I married, and me and my wife decided to come to States and stay here and start a new life. Uh, there are many languages like Turkish, um Lur-Luri [spelling?], and Balochi [spelling?], and Arabic, there, um, only Farsi, I could speak only Farsi, my … I remember that when I came here somebody asked me, “How old are you?” and I really didn’t understand what [laughs] wha-that sentenced meant, you know [laughs]. And my uncle was mad at me: “You don’t know even how old are you, you cannot answer that question.”

TRANSCRIBED BY: Travis Ashmore (under the supervision of Paul Meier)

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

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY:

Take notice of the common replacement of “t” sounds with “d” sounds, as well as his pattern of elongating many vowels.

COMMENTARY BY: Travis Ashmore (under the supervision of Paul Meier)

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

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