Florida Five - Text
This recording was done on September 7, 2007 by Adam Rælson.
My sample subject is a twenty year-old university student who goes to school in Boca Raton, Florida. She is a white female who has lived in south Florida her whole life so her sample of the dialect of the region is quite reliable. She read Comma Gets a Cure. She uses the terms “I-95” to refer to the interstate and uses the term “highway” as opposed to “freeway” or even “interstate” itself. When referring to Florida’s Turnpike she calls it “the turnpike” rather than a “toll road”. Though she said “pump gas” once, she used “fill gas” twice making me think that would be the more natural term for her to use. In the term “veterinary”, she does not pronounce the second “e” but combines the “t” and first “r” sounds. She has a very rounded /D/ especially before the letter “r” giving her a typical south Floridian pronunciation of her own home state.
Non-scripted orthographic transcription:
I am a public communications major at Florida Atlantic University. That’s located in Boca Raton. I am currently living um, 20 minutes south of there. I take I-95 back and forth. Um, because FAU is right off I-95, it’s, it’s just east of there, and I live right off I-95 as well. There is another highway which I could take, the turnpike, but that would be completely out of my way. Um, 20 minutes, 25 minutes – it’s not, it’s not a huge ordeal, but um traffic can be pretty bad in the morning – rush hour definitely. And coming home at around 4 or 5 o’clock. Gas can also get expensive coming back and forth, although now gas prices are pretty decent, I have to say. Um, when I go to the gas station, I, pay for gas. I usually use my, my debit card and, and you know, I usually use regular gas and put it in my gas tank – make sure the engine’s off. Um, and, I pump it and fill it. Pretty much I always fill it up, um, all the way so I don’t have to make as many trips to the gas station. I try not to drive on empty at all. The classes I’m currently taking at FAU are um, Communication, Gender, and Language. I’m taking Ethnicity and Communication. I’m taking Small Group Processes. And I’m also taking a sociology class, um, Human Sexuality and Social Change. Um, I like my classes a lot right now. It’s about fifteen credits of classes I’m taking. Um, my teachers can be, seem a little hard, but they’re, I think, I think they’re, they’re really good. And, oh also I’m taking Mass Communication Theory as well. That’s, that’s another class that I-I definitely need to take. But I’m really enjoying the semester so far. Next semester I hope to take up an internship of of some sort. Whether it’s working for a news station or something along those lines.Running time 00:04:36.