Tennessee 5

Listen to Tennessee 5, an 11-year-old boy from Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 11

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1990

PLACE OF BIRTH: Nashville, Tennessee

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Caucasian

OCCUPATION: student

EDUCATION:

The subject was attending school at the time of this recording.

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

The subject also lived briefly in Berlin, Germany.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: Patricia Childs

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 08/06/2001

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

This is the story about, um, me an’ my friends playin’ bumper bikes. Me an’ my friends were ridin’ bikes, an’, um, we decided to, like, run into each other, jus’ to slow each other down. It’s sorta like tag, but we call it bumper bikes. So, um, me an’ my frien’, David; he, um, he stopped. Then I came straight at the side of ’im; then as soon as I got there, he hit his pedal, an’ at first I didn’ know it, but then I found out that my leg was cut open. An’ I really didn’ enjoy that. I got fourteen stitches. Thing that sucked was, because it was durin’ the summer, I didn’ get to go swimmin’.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Jacqueline Baker

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 05/07/2008

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

SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY: N/A

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

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