Florida 14

Listen to Florida 14, a 34-year-old man from Miami, Florida, United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 34

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 01/12/1983

PLACE OF BIRTH: Miami, Florida

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Caucasian

OCCUPATION: occupational therapist

EDUCATION: The subject holds a master’s degree in occupational therapy.

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

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject grew up around many Latino friends (mainly Cuban) and picked up some of the accent along the way. He also speaks Spanish almost fluently and on a daily basis with his clients at work and with his partner of ten years, who is Cuban. They have two children together to whom they speak both Spanish and English.

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RECORDED BY: Sarah Maria Nichols

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 11/03/2018

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

[tsk] Um, well, um, [clears throat] livin’ in Miami and, and hearing the, um, the different, uh, accents, I can hear, uh, different accents of the, the Cubans, the, uh, Columbians, the Venezuelans, and, um, I can definitely always, uh, pick out a Cuban accent. Um, that’s the – usually the one that I hear because, um, there’s so may Cubans coming into Miami, and, um, they’re just learning English, and, um, I can definitely pick out a Cuban accent. Um, like I, I was mentioning earlier, uh, usually the, uh, the Miami stereotypical accent is, um, based off of a Cuban accent. And Cuban Miami, uh, people, uh, maybe that – came when they were young, or even came r – just a couple, you know, like a year ago. Um, and so, yeah, definitely I think there is a Miami accent, um, that’s different f – than even a – just the county above us in Broward, the – in Miami Dade County the accent is, uh, unique, um, and it – definitely you could, uh, pick out – you could create a stereotypical, um, accent for Miami.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Sarah Maria Nichols

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 03/04/2018

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