International Dialects of English Archive
Founded 1997

  • Home
  • | What's New
  • | Dialects & Accents
  • | Special Collections
  • | Copyright & Credit Information
  • | Associate Editors
  • | Contact Us

Austria Three - Text

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Age: 32
Date of Birth: 04/04/1977
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Occupation: Student
Educational Level: 14 years of college-currently seeking Ph’d

INFLUENCES ON SPEECH
Born in Steyr, upper Austria, but raised and attended elementary school in St. Valentin.  Went to high school in Steyr and then for 9 nine years attended college at the University of Vienna.  Moved to Lawrence, Kansas and has lived there for 5 years.

TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH

I was born in upper Austria in a town called Steyr, but I was raised uh approximately twenty kilometers away from, from there in a lovely town of uh St Valentin uhm, yea, uh, I went to elementary school there and later on I went to high school back to uh back in Steyr and while I was in Steyr I decided I wanted to uh go on and uh study biology so when I was eighteen I went to Vienna started biology to become a high school teacher. Uh, approximately, uh halfway through my biology studies I went on a field trip uh with uh geologists from University of Vienna and after that I decided to add a geology study and yea after all nine years at University of Vienna I finished uh my degrees in geology and biology and got an offer to go on with a PH.D in Lawrence at KU accepted and now five years later I’m still at KU and try to finish up my PH.D this summer and so far was a great time and yea I hope afterwards I will find a nice job and maybe stay in the U.S. or go back to Austria. I don’t know yet.

SAMPLE RECORDED, SPEECH TRANSCRIBED, AND NOTES WRITTEN BY Julie Bayliff ON May 3, 2009.

RUNNING TIME: 03:57

Europe

  • Armenia
  • Austria
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Bulgaria
  • Croatia
  • Cyprus
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • England
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Georgia, EU
  • Greece (Hellas)
  • Hungary
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Macedonia
  • Netherlands
  • Northern Ireland
  • Poland
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • Scotland
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Turkey
  • Ukraine
  • Wales

  • Home
  • Become An Editor
  • Selected Bibliography
  • The Rainbow Passage
  • Comma Gets A Cure
  • FAQ
  • Submit A Sample
  • Links
  • Paul Meier's Résumé
  • Shawn Muller's Résumé
  • Other Dialect Services