Northern Ireland 3

Listen to Northern Ireland 3, a woman in her 20s from Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 20s

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

PLACE OF BIRTH: Ballywalter, County Down, near Belfast (but grew up in Belfast and County Antrim)

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Irish/Caucasian

OCCUPATION: student, former elementary school teacher

EDUCATION: Subject was a master’s student in drama studies at the time of the interview.

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

The subject was born near Belfast and was raised there. At the time of this recording, she was a university student in Dublin.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject states that her accent has a slight County Antrim influence as well as a Scottish influence from Ballyclare, where she went to school.

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RECORDED BY: Floortje Nijssen

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

‘K, my na-, eh, I’m currently studying, uh, at UCD in Dublin, but I’m originally from Belfast; the place I live is just outside of Belfast, more to the north, so I would probably have slight influences of a County Antrim accent. And I went to school at a place called Ballyclare, which would have very much, um, Antrim influences in the accent; um, in the Antrim accent is actually supposed to be descended from the Scottish accent, because the Scottish people came over to Ireland many, many years ago and left their imprint with the accent. [laughs]

TRANSCRIBED BY: Faith Harvey and Kristy Plotkin

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 21/03/2008

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