Poland 4

Listen to Poland 4, a woman from Warsaw, Poland, who has also lived in Ukraine and Australia. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: N/A

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

PLACE OF BIRTH: Ukraine (but raised in Warsaw)

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Ukrainian/white

OCCUPATION: N/A

EDUCATION: N/A

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

The subject was born in the Ukraine and attended university in Warsaw. Prior to this recording, she had lived in Australia for 15 years, where she worked as a dentist.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject speaks Polish, Russian, English, and Ukrainian.

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

RECORDED BY: Geraldine Cook

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 05/07/2006

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

OK, my story will be short, ’cause, uh, it was long time ago [laughs]. So when I came to Australia, it wasn’t like coming from Poland straightaway, so we have to go through another country, which was Greece. It was beautiful country, but not for migrants. It was very hard time for me and for my family, and we didn’t have the job, we didn’t have the money, and it was very hard [laughs]. So, my son was born there, and, uh, after that whole struggling, we came to this beautiful country, Australia.

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: Faith Harvey

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 02/07/2008

SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY:

The subject has some distinctive features similar to other Polish subjects, but she has more frontal articulation and more consistency with vowel sounds, particularly the ER sound. Also note:  AE is elongated; end consonant “s” in plural is unvoiced; R is retroflex; OH is elongated in words like job and odd; i becomes ee, as in kit; u (short), as in foot, becomes lengthened; t is quite dentalized; and there is an Australian influence in words like palm and tune, which tend to have quite a bit of tuning on the first vowel. Overall, consonants are fairly light, e.g., beautiful (in her story), which almost becomes a d. Also, in the word “Australia,” the first vowel sound is realized as OW.

COMMENTARY BY: Geraldine Cook

DATE OF COMMENTARY (DD/MM/YYYY): 05/07/2006

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