Honduras 1

Listen to Honduras 1, a 45-year-old woman from Villanueva, Honduras. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 45

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 13/10/1973

PLACE OF BIRTH: Villanueva, Honduras

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Hispanic/white

OCCUPATION: freelance landscaper

EDUCATION: high school diploma, some community college

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

At the time of this recording, the subject had been living in Victorville, California, United States, for more than 20 years.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

All of her children are native-born English speakers.

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RECORDED BY: Dilcia Guzman

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 05/05/2019

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: coming soon

TRANSCRIBED BY: Deborah Ross-Sullivan and Dilcia Guzman

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 14/06/2019

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

My childhood in Honduras: Um, it was very happy. I feel free! I, I always play in the neighborhood, have a lot of friends, ’cause I’m the younger sibling in the family, and, uh, for me, it was, um, always, uh, have a good time; that was the, the, the main thing, you know. My mom: She always stay home and take care of us. We were seven; we are seven in the family. And the relationship with, um, my other, uh, brothers and sisters: Uh, they always, uh, you know, taking care of me. And what I remember, you know: I always, you know, go to school, uh, play with friends, yeah, and, helping my mom a lot. Whatever she asked me to do, uh, I always do it; I mean, the social part, like I said, you know, uh, I have a lot of friends, uh, you know — be nice and kind with my friends; uh, we always help each other too.

My brother, my older brother: He helped me a lot, you know, to learn to stuff like biking, swimming, getting into trees too, you know. We like to, to, uh, to pick fruit ’cause we have a lot of, uh, fruit trees in our house, in our backyard. We have coconuts, mangoes, plums, papayas, oranges, uh, bananas. We have a lot, a lot of things, you know, and, uh, if we want, want to eat, we just pick from the tree. My childhood was so happy, and I feel, you know, free to do stuff, you know, and to play with my, my friends.

In Honduras, um, we, we have, um, tacos. I love to eat, uh, tacos and enchiladas, but the tacos is like the flautas over here in America, but a little bit long and big, and the enchiladas is like, uh, like a tostada, you know, tostada, ground beef, um, eh, pico de gallo, and, um, how you call repollo? I don’t know, but it’s repollo. [Subject laughs.] Eh, yeah, that’s one of my, my favorite dishes when I grow up. Um, my mom like to prepare, not all the time, but, but when she prepare it, I remember it, you know, I enjoy it a lot. And another thing that, um, we, we in, when I, um, grow up, we had the, the three meals a day; it was breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but dinner — before 4 [p.m.]. It was served before 4. No food after 4 in Honduras, ’cause we went to sleep early, not too early, but, you know, yeah and yeah, that’s what I remember …

TRANSCRIBED BY: Deborah Ross-Sullivan and Dilcia Guzman

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 14/06/2019

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY:

Subject switches the “cup” sound when spelled with /o/ to the “all” sound and toward the “fathers” sound when spelled with /u/. The /I/ modifies up. The r-colored vowels and diphthongs are sometimes retroflexed. At times, the soft /g/ sound reverts to /zh/, and /t/ sounds can be both dental and darkened to a /d/ sound. There is vocal musicality in the unscripted section that is missing from Comma Gets a Cure.

COMMENTARY BY: Deborah Ross-Sullivan

DATE OF COMMENTARY (DD/MM/YYYY): 14/06/2019

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