Israel 4

Listen to Israel 4, a 34-year-old man from Jerusalem, Israel. 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): 27/03/1979

PLACE OF BIRTH: Jerusalem, Israel

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Israeli

OCCUPATION: professor

EDUCATION: Ph.D

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

The subject was living in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, at the time of this recording.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

The text used in our recordings of scripted speech can be found by clicking here.

RECORDED BY: Maggie Boyles (under the supervision of Paul Meier)

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 10/10/2013

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

This morning I showed, er, I, I … ss … erm, I screened a film for my class that spoke about the war in Lebanon, the first war in Lebanon, named Waltz with Bashir. It is a very touching movie, and I find it to be … very sentimental.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Maggie Boyles (under the supervision of Paul Meier)

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION: 09/11/2013

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

d̪ɪs mɔ˞nɪ̝ŋɡ̥ aɪ ˈʃɒːd ʔɐʔaɪ̝ aɪ s̩.ʔə̝m aɪ skɹiˑnd̥ ʔə fɪ̞l̴m fɔ˞ˑ maɪ klæˑs d̪ɛt spo̝k əˈbaʊd̥ d̪ɪ̞ ˈwɔ˞ in ˈlɛbənɐn d̪ə fɜ˞st wɔ˞[ɹ] ɪ̝n ˈlɛbənɐn neɪmd wɑˑl̴s wɪ̝θ bəˈʃi̝ˑə˞ | ɪ̝dizə ˈvɛ˞ɹi ˈtɐtʃ͡ɪ̝ŋ ˈmuviˑ | ɛænd aɪ faɪnd ɪ̝t̚ tʉ biː | vɛ˞ɹɪ ˈsɛntɪˈ mɛnt̪ʰɵ̆ l̴‖

TRANSCRIBED BY: Maggie Boyles (under the supervision of Paul Meier)

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 09/11/2013

SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY:

Subject uses fillers and elongates vowels when searching for the next word.

Initial voiced ‘th’ [ð, in RP and General American dialects] sounds are replaced with a dentalised ‘d’ sound [d̪].

In an attempt to replicate the tapped, post-vocalic ‘t’ sound of General American speech [ɾ], the subject has hyper-corrected to instead achieve a voiceless ‘d’ sound [d̥].

COMMENTARY BY: Maggie Boyles (under the supervision of Paul Meier)

DATE OF COMMENTARY (DD/MM/YYYY): 23/11/2013

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