Poland Four - Text

Born in the Ukraine and attended University in Warsaw. Has lived in Australia for the last 15 years where she works as a dentist. Speaks Polish, Russian, English and Ukrainian.

Distinctive features similar to above but overall she has more frontal articulation and more consistency with vowel sounds, particularly ER.

AE elongated

End consonant s in plural unvoiced

R is retroflex

OH elongated in words like job and odd

i becomes ee as in kit

u (short) as in foot becomes lengthened

t quite dentalised

There is an Australian influence in some words e.g palm and tune tend to have quite a bit of tuning on the first vowel

Overall consonants fairly light e.g. beautiful (in her story) which almost becomes a d

In the word Australia, the first vowel sound is realised as OW.

Recorded by Geraldine Cook, July 5, 2006; edited by Paul Meier July 28, 2006. Running time 04:11.

TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH

Okay, my story will be short, 'cause uh, it was long time ago *laughs*. So when I came to Australia...it wasn't like coming from Poland straightaway, so we have to go through another country, which was Greece, it was beautiful country, but not for migrants...it was very hard time for me and for my family, and we didn't have the job, we didn't have the money, and it was very hard *laughs* So, my son was born there, and uh, after that whole struggling, we came to this beautiful country Australia.

UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY FAITH HARVEY 2 JULY 2008

Poland Four - Text

Europe