Saskatchewan Four - Text
Subject is a white female, born in 1980. Born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. She has a high school education and has been living in Australia for one year working as a nanny. She is the daughter of Saskatchewan subjects #3 and #5. Recorded amd edited on May 7, 2000 by Susan Stackhouse.
As is the case in her father's (Saskatchewan3) delivery, this subject employs rising intonation throughout the recording. She is also under pitching and with the exception of the rise at the ends of her sentences the pitch range is narrow. As in her mother's (Saskatchewan5) speech delivery there is evidence of glottal stopping in the initial position when words begin with a vowel sound. There is also a slight example of Canadian Raising (mid central starting point when the following consonant is voiceless) in strike, white light, out, however, as in all samples from Saskatchewan, the vowel is more open than is typically heard in eastern Canada. This subject turns the medial [t] into a [d] as in beaudiful.
Further editing 9.23.00 by Paul Meier. Running time: 00:02:13.
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
I’m 20 years old (um)…I’ve grown up in Regina all my life, I went to Guatemala when I was 12, I’ve also been to Florida to Disney World, I’ve been…all over the states like Texas and …Montana lots and I’m not sure where else, (um) I’ve been to Australia, I’ve been to Indonesia, to Bali and to …(um) I don’t know here and there, and I’ve been to Lake Louise in Alberta. (unclear) I take a counseling course there. I took one, I’m not sure if I will this year or not, but I’ll be taking a cooking course. (um)… I’m involved with the church there a lot with the with the choir and the albums that they do and what not. (um) It’s quite a-it’s quite a large church. It’s 6000 people go there and th-they they do (um) worship albums and stuff like that. They circulate all over the world. So, it’s at-they’re actually pretty good. They’re (um) they-they’ve like even hit se-secular charts and stuff like that, so, pretty good. I like to snowboard (laughs), I like to draw, I like to horse ride, horseback ride, I like to…(um)…anything and everything outside (laughs).
UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY RICK LIPTON, ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR TRANSCRIPTIONS, MAY 4, 2008