North Carolina 23

Listen to North Carolina 23, a 26-year-old woman from High Point, North Carolina, United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 26

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 28/08/1996

PLACE OF BIRTH: High Point, North Carolina

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Laotian and Thai

OCCUPATION: server

EDUCATION: bachelor’s degree

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

The speaker has lived in various Los Angeles neighborhoods (North Hollywood and Glendale) for the past five years. Other than that, her life has been spent in North Carolina, growing up in High Point and also spending time in Reidsville and Greensboro.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The speaker acquired Lao as a first language and English second. She constantly speaks both with her family and also uses English every day.

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

RECORDED BY: Amaia Villegas

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 18/08/2023

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I was born in High Point, North Carolina, um, in a low-income area, but my family made do. My dad was a handyman. So he did a lot of like odd jobs, and he did janitorial duties, but he always made sure we were very comfortable. And I enjoyed playing outside a lot on his, uh, treehouse that he made for us. Um, I don’t know — my childhood was mostly spent outdoors. And I always liked to play with other kids in the neighborhood. It was a very diverse neighborhood, um, in the 1990s. I was born in 1996. And I moved around a little bit in North Carolina, and now I currently live in Los Angeles for five years.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Amaia Villegas

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 22/08/2023

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