Iran 1

Listen to Iran 1, a 51-year-old man from Ahvaz, Iran, who has also lived in the United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 51

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1950

PLACE OF BIRTH: Ahvaz, Iran

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Iranian (exact ethnicity unknown)

OCCUPATION: N/A

EDUCATION: N/A

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

At the time of the interview, the subject had resided in the United States for 27 years, since the age of 24.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: Micah Espinosa

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 14/09/2001

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I was born and raised in a city called Ahvaz in Iran, which is southwest of Iran. And at the time, the place had about a population of two-hundred thousand, but now it has a population of about two million. In fact, I was there in August after ten years and it has a population of about two million. Extremely hot. In fact, this summer that I was there the temperature was somewhere between one-hundred twenty-five to one-hundred and thirty. Extremely hot, unbearable. So this summer I went there visited my sisters and brothers but I was brought up in that city and we never felt the heat, not at all. In fact, during the summer when we didn’t go school, we played soccer bare-footed on asphalt outside and we didn’t complain. And we did not know anything different to complai… so we had nothing to compare.  And in our house we had only one room with a fan, a ceiling fan. No air conditioning, one room with a ceiling fan, and extremely hot. [Subject concludes by speaking in Persian.]

TRANSCRIBED BY: Elizabeth Terrell

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 30/05/2008

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY:

Please notice his use of [v] for [w]. His [v] is a bilabial fricative. His “th” sounds are stops and the listener should notice the forward point of resonance.

COMMENTARY BY: Micah Espinosa

DATE OF COMMENTARY (DD/MM/YYYY): 14/09/2001

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