Venezuela 2

Listen to Venezuela 2, a man from Caracas, Venezuela, and the United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: N/A

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1971

PLACE OF BIRTH: Caracas, Venezuela

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Venezuelan (exact ethnicity unknown)

OCCUPATION: N/A

EDUCATION: N/A

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

The subject lived in the United States for 15 years and in Spain for two years. At the time of the interview, he was living in Canada.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: Mark Ingram

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

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I was born in Caracas, Venezuela, which is the, the capital of the country.  It’s a big city, about *six million people, *very busy, very, a lot of d’y’know, a lot of traffic, a lot of noise, a lot of mud.  Very modern city: a lot of big buildings and sky-rises, and highways, and everything, but *but at the same time a lot of poverty, like all the Latin American countries.  [Interviewer speaks.]  No, I lived there until I was eighteen years old.  Then I moved to the United States and I lived there for *fifteen years.  Then I went back to Venezuela for a couple of years, and then I moved to Spain for almost two years.  And now I’m in Canada since December first.
[* = vocalic pause]

TRANSCRIBED BY: Kevin Flynn and Mark Ingram

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 30/08/2008

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SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY: N/A

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