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West Virginia Two - Text

Recorded and edited 10/23/2000 by Lynn Watson.

Subject is 70+ female, white, retired homemaker. Grew up in the "coal camp" (as the company mining towns were called) of Glen White, West Virginia. Now lives in Crab Orchard, West Virginia, which was once a country area outside Beckley, West Virginia, but has been built up so that it is now more suburban. Subject talks about having spinal meningitis when she was a child. (WV1, WV2 and WV3 are: father, mother and son, respectively.)

(Symbols based on SAMPA. For the SAMPA website click here) Note [I] for [E]. [aI] shifts back towards [A], but more closed. [eI] for [{]. General diphthongization and elongation of vowel sounds. Lip rounding and oral space are diminished. General centralization of vowels. Strong nasal resonance and strong "r-coloring" are characteristic of the dialect. Note consistent pronunciation of "cure" [kCU@r] in the three related West Virginia samples. Running time: 00:03:38\

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