Florida 2

Listen to Florida 2, an 18-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: 18

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PLACE OF BIRTH: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (but raised in Miami)

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Caucasian

OCCUPATION: actor

EDUCATION: high school

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

The subject was born in Philadelphia, lived in New Jersey until age 3, and spent most of the rest of his life in Miami, Florida. He had been working in New York for the six months before the recording was made.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

His mother is from New Jersey, and his father is from Colorado.

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Um, when I was like 2 or 3, I was a big fan of, um, “The Wonder Years,” and I always wanted to be Fred Savage. So I woul- told my mom from the time I was like two that I wanted to be an- famous actor. And, uh, she thought it was just like a phase that I was going t- through, so she didn’t really think anything of it, but by the time I was 5, and I kept, you know, saying I wanted to be an actor, she finally signed me up for acting camp at, uh, Actors’ Playhouse, when they were still in Kendall. And, um, I took the class for like two months, and then they auditions for “The Nerd.” And, uh, I auditioned, and I got the part, and I had a great time. David Aristico [spelling?] was the director, and my mom had, uh, got divorced like a year and a half before. And like, by the last show, they had started dating, and now he’s my stepdad. And, uh, then after that, I continued to work in the area. I did “Pippin” here. And I, uh, then I did “Damn Yankees” and, uh, continued to work regionally at Coconut Grove Playhouse and Actors’ Playhouse. And then when I was 12, I decided that I wanted to take a big chance, and I auditioned for “Les Mis,” at the Jackie Gleason Theatre. And there was like 3,000 kids, and I was number 2,998, so I was there from 7 in the morning till like 7 at night. And I went in and I did my thing, and at the end of the audition they said, “Go get your mom. How would you like to move to New York?” And so I, um, went and got my mom. And, we had just moved back into our house after the hurricane. We didn’t lived in our house for three years, ’cause Andrew pretty much destroyed our, our house, and we were having trouble with con- contractors, so we had just moved back, and my mom wasn’t really optimistic about, you know, leaving the house after we had just moved back in. But she said yes, and they said, “Well, we have a couple more people to see, and if we decide to give you the part, we’ll call you in the next day or so.” I didn’t go to school the next day. I stayed by the phone. And, uh, no one called. So, two weeks later, I was taking a nap, which I never do, and they called and said that I got the part. And then two weeks later I left to New York, and I did the show for six months. And that’s pretty much it.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Jacqueline Baker

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 29/10/2007

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SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY:

Subject is an 18-year-old, Caucasian male, who was born in Philadelphia, lived in New Jersey until age 3, and spent the rest of his life in Miami, Florida. His mother is from New Jersey and his father is from Colorado. The subject has a definitive tension of the tongue retracting backward and upward. This helps create the very definitive /ɰ/ for all consonant R sounds and R-colored vowels. The intervocalic /t/ becomes a /d/. The /l/ is pronounced / ɫ/ with a dark quality from pressing it hard into the alveolar area. There is a strong nasalization to the vowels next to nasal consonants. Final consonants are often dropped.

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