Texas 22

Listen to Texas 22, a 15-year-old boy from Bryan, Texas, United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 15

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 12/11/2003

PLACE OF BIRTH: Bryan, Texas

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Caucasian

OCCUPATION: none

EDUCATION: The subject is currently a junior in high school.

AREA(S) OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS: none

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject talks about studying dialects for fun, but it’s unlikely that has had a significant effect on his own dialect.

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RECORDED BY: subject

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 26/08/2019

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I live in Bryan, Texas, a sister town to College Station in Central Texas, and have always lived here. The nearest university is Texas A&M, located in College Station. Every time the football season comes around — that’s the sport we’re famous for — for a few hours before a home game, there are various booths in the “Fan Zone,” within about half a mile of the football field.

In Bryan, historic downtown is full of shops and a handful of restaurants, and it would be hard to visit them all in one day. That area is really the only area in town where the streets are in a north-south grid. Elsewhere, the streets go every which way.

For almost a year, I have wanted to be the title character from a show I was watching for Halloween. I decided that my costume should include his accent, which I started picking up on from watching the show. By the time I was done, I realized I still didn’t know what that kind of accent was. A couple of weeks later, I don’t know if my friend knew about my costume, but she told me about this program [IDEA], and I’ve been using the files to get better at the accent.

TRANSCRIBED BY: subject

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION: 26/08/2019

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

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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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