Poland 5

Listen to Poland 5, a 60-year-old man from Warsaw, Poland, who has also lived in Australia. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 60

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1946

PLACE OF BIRTH: Warsaw, Poland

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Polish/white

OCCUPATION: N/A

EDUCATION: trained as actor

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

The subject has lived in Australia since 1980.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject’s speech substitutions are quite inconsistent, and there does not seem to be much of an influence from the Australian accent.

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:

My story: I am the cleaner; every morning I’m cleaning office; every night I clean for my wife, preparing dinner, and waiting for my big day. You are my big day. We love you, we want you, they told me long time ago, now, nobody wants me, nobody will have me, and I am very lonely. That’s me, lonely goose.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Faith Harvey

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

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY:

ER, as in “first,” “morning” and “her,” is realized with some retroflex in those words, but in the words “porridge” and “stroking,” is realized more with a trill. The goose vowel and its shorter equivalent, as in “foot,” are lengthened. TH becomes D and T, and similarly T becomes TH, as in “told.” EL, as in “able,” is realized as AEble, again substituted for a short front vowel sound. Lastly, G becomes K.

COMMENTARY BY: Geraldine Cook

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

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