Costa Rica One - Text
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Age: 24
Date of Birth: July 27, 1984
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Occupation: Student
Level of Education: Masters
INFLUENCES ON SPEECH
The subject was born in San José, Costa Rica. His family is from Alajuela, Costa Rica, he grew up in the third canton of Alajuela, Grecia, Costa Rica.
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
Ok, well I was born in 1984 uh in the capitol city of my country, which is, uh San José, in Costa Rica. Uhh, but I didn’t live in San José actually uh my family was from Alajuela, which is another city of Costa Rica so uh my parents told me that we live there for a few months obviously I don’t remember. Uh, then we moved to Grecia, which would be like Greece. Uhm which is another a smaller, much smaller city that is also part of the province of Alajuela. Uh that’s where I grew up basically, that’s uh where my childhood took place. I don’t know, um, I went, I went to school normally, I went to high school normally I had friends. Uhhm, when I graduated from high school I moved moved back to San José to uh to go to college at the University of Costa Rica. Uh that was in 2002, uh I finished my degree in 2006. Uh I went into grad school over there in 2006 and that took all the way to 2008 when I came here to Lawrence. Well, um I actually don’t have full brothers, I have two step-brothers, the thing is that uh they are twenty years older than I am so we didn’t really grow up together. But the fun stuff is that I have five nephews and nieces that are pretty much my age, so, well I was a little older, I’m a little older than they are but it was a lot of fun growing up with them uh I think they enjoyed. Uh It was a little weird for them to call me uncle though, because it made no sense, ha ha. But, I mean, uh I, I really miss those days, they are now grown-ups too, so.
SAMPLE RECORDED, AND SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY DAVID STOGSDILL ON MAY 2, 2009
RUNNING TIME: 04:37