Jiangsu 2

Listen to Jiangsu 2, a 19-year-old man from Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 19

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 21/06/1989

PLACE OF BIRTH: Nanjing, Jiangsu Province (but raised in Changzhou)

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Chinese

OCCUPATION: student

EDUCATION: At the time of the recording, the subject was a university student in China.

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

Although born in Nanjing, the subject was raised in Changzhou, also in Jiangsu Province, where he learned to speak in a second Chinese dialect, Changzhouhua, one of the Wu dialects.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

Subject began to learn English at the very young age of 10 but did not have any native English-speaking teachers. His Chinese teachers imparted to him some of their own idiosyncratic pronunciations.

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RECORDED BY: Zheng Zining

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 16/01/2009

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

My grandfather was an orphan who was born in Taiwan and taken by somebody to mainland China later. And, well, my grandmother, my maternal one, uh, came from an affluent family in Changzhou. Yeah, I consider myself a native of Changzhou because I was raised there, although I was born in Nanjing. Uh, Changzhou is about, er, a hundred and sixty kilometres to the west from Shanghai, and, uh, I can speak Mandarin and the dialect of Changzhou. Uh, if you know, uh, I mean, Professor Yuen-Ren Chao came from the same place. So, I guess it’s the right time to say something: [speaks in Chinese: Hello, everybody. I’m from Changzhou. Today I’m going to speak some Changzhou dialect. Uh, I plan to visit the new zoo to have some fun. Watch all kinds of animals. I’m give you my photos later. That’s it.] So that’s it. Bye!

TRANSCRIBED BY: Zheng Zining

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 26/01/2009

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY: N/A

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

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