Italy 16

Listen to Italy 16, a 29-year-old man from Diano Marina, near Genoa, Italy. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 29

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 28/01/1985

PLACE OF BIRTH: Imperia, Italy, but grew up in Diano Marina

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: white

OCCUPATION: researcher

EDUCATION: Ph.D

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

The subject has spent a total of one year in England and two in the United States.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

He learned British English in school.

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RECORDED BY: Barrie Kreinik

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 04/05/2014

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

So I was born in Imperia in, 1985, on a cold, uh, winter. I was born on, uh, January 28th. It was a snowing, day, as far as, uh, I know from my mom. I grew up in a small village on the coast; it’s a touristic, s—touristic place, a small town, around 7,000 inhabitants in the winter, but in the summer it grew up — and we reach around 40,000 inhabitants, so it’s a big touristic place. I studied there for like elementary school, middle school, and high school, and then I moved to, to Genoa, uh, for my, uh, undergrad degree. I studied law for five years, uh, in Italy, and then, as soon as I graduated, I started a Ph.D in law. After two years of Ph.D, and after having spent couple of summers in the U.K., in London, and in Switzerland for, uh, summer courses, I decided to go to, to the U.S. for, eh, a master degree. So I, I got a, mm, a, a fellowship, and I came to the U.S. to study law in, uh, in a top law school, uh, and after that year, I decided that my professional, um, career would be in, in the U.S. and not in Italy.

So, in Italy, generally we have, a couple of big holidays where generally we gather all together with the family. So the traditional Italian thing is gathering not just with one family, but with all your … the, with the extended family, so generally for Easter and Christmas we used to, have big lunches or dinners, uh, with, uncles, granduncles, aunt, grandaunt, grandparents, and a lot of cousins and nephews. So generally those events are pretty big, and, um, it’s generally for lunchtime, and, we gather together generally between 15 and 25 people, eating all together, spending the whole afternoon chatting, playing, and talking with family members that generally you don’t see that often throughout the year. Mmm, in my family, we generally, we used to spend Christmastime in my hometown, Diano Marina, and then moving to, going the day after immediately to Florence on Saint Stephen — Stephen’s Day, to spend Saint S-Stephen’s Day in Florence with my, my mother’s family. While for Easter, generally we used to stay in my hometown, and, uh, going to my, aunt and uncle’s place, we used to eat many chocolate eggs and spending the afternoon playing games outside.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Barrie Kreinik

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 06/05/2014

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