Australia 35

Listen to Australia 35, a 23-year-old woman from Melbourne (Brighton), Victoria, Australia. 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): 09/01/1997

PLACE OF BIRTH: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Australian/Caucasian

OCCUPATION: music therapist

EDUCATION: master’s degree

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject spent seven months living in Ireland.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject has acting experience and says she has learned to do a “refined” Australian dialect at times. She also admits to modifying her dialect while living in Ireland so that her housemates could better understand her.

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RECORDED BY: Subject

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 20/06/2020

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

So, I was born and raised in Bayside, Melbourne — so, around the Brighton, Brighton area. Um, both my parents are also from Melbourne; my mum grew up in sort of more rural Melbourne, out in the bush, and dad grew up very much inner suburbs. Um, and, yeah, Mum moved to Sydney for a short time, but really we are very much a born and bred Melbourne family.

Um, [I’ve] done a bunch of acting and such, which means I can do quite a nice refined Australian accent, but I’m quite a lazy speaker to be honest, so it’s, um, yeah, I have quite a broad inner-city accent, I guess — unless I’m thinking about it, and then I can get quite articulate, but I’m not often thinking about it, ’cause I’m a bit lazy.

I spent, um, about seven months living overseas in Ireland and had four international speak — like English as a second language, um, housemates. So by the end of that, um, I had made quite an effort to refine my accent to be be more understood ’cause they really struggled to understand the Australian accent, but, um, that was a number of years ago now, so that, ah, all that effort has worn off quite a bit. And, yeah, this is how I sound now, I guess.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Subject

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 20/06/2020

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