Scotland 3

Listen to Scotland 3, a 20-year-old woman from Ayrshire and Kilbirnie, Scotland. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 20

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1980

PLACE OF BIRTH: Ayrshire (a small village near Glasgow)

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Caucasian

OCCUPATION: university student

EDUCATION: university education

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

The subject was born, raised and lived in a small village near Glasgow until her matriculation at the University of Kansas in the United States in 2000.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

Despite attending university in the United States, her accent is still quite strong, perhaps because she had been in the States only a couple of months before this recording was made.

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

RECORDED BY: Paul Meier

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 10/04/2000

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Two weeks before I moved here we moved out the house. So that was quite distressing. Em, I went to school in a local village school called Gateside Primary, and then from there I went on to Garnock Academy, which was in Kilbirnie. Em, ‘n’ three towns went to that school: Beith, Dalry, and Kilbirnie. And I did six years at that school, so I left when I was 17. And I moved to Stirling University when I was still 17, so it was a big adventure. Em, spent two years there. Em, started doing film and media and marketing. I also did it with computing one semester and philosophy the next. But I still stuck with film and media. And then I applied for coming here when I was in second year at Stirling, so I would have been 18n or so, *19 or 19. And then I came out here em eight weeks ago, and, em, I’ve been here ever since. *Really enjoy living, I’m enjoying it here, but it’s so different from Scotland. *I really enjoy em like the size of the places here. Just Scotland, don’t know if you’ve ever been, but it’s tiny. Em, but I miss, like, all my friends and my family and my flat in Scotland and my niece. I’ve got a small niece called Caitlin. So I miss all that. I miss my family, my parents. Well, near me, of course, there’s Gateside, and then beside that’s Beith, and then there’s Lugton. Um, and the nearest big town would be Paisley, which is they’re trying t- to debate whether to turn that into a city just now. Em, and then beside Paisley there’s Glasgow, which is again, Glasgow’s only half an hour away at the most. Em, so that’s where I went a lot when I was younger. Em, there’s also Irvine and Linwood, um, Kilmarnock, Ayr … *trying to think of anywhere else. They’re all, like, they’re all the big towns, but we’re, where we are we’re very accessible to all of them. And then the next nearest place I would say would be Stirling, but that’s about an hour’s drive away from Glasgow.
[* = vocalic pause]

TRANSCRIBED BY: Kevin Flynn

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 31/08/2007

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

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SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY:

If you are a dialect researcher, or an actor using this sample to develop your skill in the accent, please see my instruction manual at www.paulmeier.com. As the speaker in this sample is a unique individual, it is highly unlikely that she will conform to my analysis in every detail. But you will find it interesting and instructive to notice which of my “signature sounds” and “additional features” (always suggested only as commonly heard features of the accent) are widely used by most speakers of the dialect, and which are subject to variation from individual to individual.

And for greater perspective on the dialects, accents, and languages of Scotland, I recommend this podcast with IDEA Associate Editor Ros Steen.

COMMENTARY BY: Paul Meier

DATE OF COMMENTARY (DD/MM/YYYY): 13/11/2016

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