Denmark Two - Text
Subject is a 70 year old Caucasian female. She is college-educated and now retired and working for the Danish Consul.
She was born and raised in Skagen, Denmark and has lived many places including England, Peru, South Africa, and Minnesota, USA.
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
“I grew up in Denmark’s most northern town. It’s called Skagen. And umm, you have the Sea of Skagerrak on one side and uh, uh, basically, uh you know the (Westerhaven)…on the left side and there’s a—Denmark ends in a long sand pit, sand spit I should say, and because of the difference in salinity between the two seas that meet there you have sort of waves that hit up against each other. It’s very sandy, it’s somewhat like, uh, um, I think Cape Cod—in some aspects of Cape Cod in personality, wind, sand, uh, western bent, uh, pines that sort of don’t grow to be too tall. And, um, so it’s rough and dramatic in some ways. We have several sort of wandering sand dunes across a spit of land that goes from west to east and I love it. It’s become a very, very popular tourist place and, uh, wealthy people from all around Denmark now come and have taken the old fisherman houses and built them into sort of elegant summer homes.”
Some sounds to note:
Labial/weak [r]: Perry, practice, stressed, mirror, hurry
leaning non-rhotic
voiced medial [t]: letter, a lot of,
[ð] towards [d]: there, the
[θ] occasionally towards [s]: mouth
[v] / [w] blend: working, when, wiped, several, west
SAMPLE RECORDED, SPEECH TRANSCRIBED, AND NOTES WRITTEN BY Joseph Papke ON December 19, 2007. POSTED NOVEMBER 26, 2008