Quebec 9

Listen to Quebec 9, a 28-year-old man from Chateauguay and Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 28

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1982

PLACE OF BIRTH: Chateauguay, Quebec, Canada

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Peruvian/French Canadian

OCCUPATION: actor

EDUCATION: N/A

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

The subject lived in Sherbrooke, Quebec; lived for 10 years in Toronto; lived for two years in Ottawa; and lived in Montreal for seven years.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject is a native French speaker, although he was raised and educated in both English and French.

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

RECORDED BY: Julia Lenardon

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 26/09/2010

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Umm, I grew up in Montreal, actually in Chateauguay, and we moved around a lot. We went to Sherbrooke, and then we came back to Montreal and we went down to Toronto. I did my sixth grade all the way to OAC, back in the day when OAC still existed in Ontario, uh, in a French school in Ontario, in Toronto, and then from there I went to Ottawa for two years and to uh … then I came back to Montreal for school and I’ve been here now for six – seven years, along the way, I guess, with training and all of that the accent got completely lost and kind of … I’m still trying to understand what’s going on with it. Thank you.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Julia Lenardon

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 09/10/2010

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY:

Subject has just a very slight accent; [t] and [d] are slightly heavier on the teeth with the French influence.

COMMENTARY BY: Julia Lenardon

DATE OF COMMENTARY (DD/MM/YYYY): 26/09/2010

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