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Pennsylvania Five - Text

Subject is age 50, male, Caucasian. Grew up Philadelphia, PA. Attended private boarding schools. (Note: Although the interviewer was not informed until the recording was over, the story about the Rolling Stones was concocted on the spot.)
(Symbols based on SAMPA.)
/r/ and /l/ tend to be labialised, while /r/ also tends to be retroflex and /l/ also tends to be rhotacized.
The following pronunciation notes refer to the "Comma" recording.
U@ - "cure"
{U - "thousand"
sE?@ns - "sentence"
E - "daily"
Vr - "Perry" "territory" "very"
{ - first syllable of "Sarah" "Mary" "Harrison"
/oU/ - tends to be preceded by a very slight /I/ - "yellow"
Occasional diphthongization on mid back rounded vowel /O/ (off-glide) - "dog"
Occasional diphthongization by adding slight /I/ before /u/ (on-glide) - "goose"
recorded and edited by Lynn Watson on 11/25/2000; further editing by Paul Meier on 01/23/2003. Running time 00:04:05.

TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
Many years ago, on the Fourth of July, I saw Jimi Hendrix play.  It was about five or six months before he died, and what a night.  The Second Atlanta Georgia Pop Festival had about 300,000 people there.  Jimi Hendrix played on Saturday night, real late.  And, I was with a whole buncha people, and when we heard him play, it just didn’t seem real.  He was barely moving about the stage.  I thought it had to be backed up by tape machines.  I just couldn’t believe ’t one person could be making all that noise.  So I hiked all the way up to the stage, couple hundred yards, climbing over bodies and people, to see with my own eyes if this was really true, an’ I couldn’t believe it, but he was doing it, the whole thing.  He played the “Star-Spangled Banner.”  Fireworks were going off over top of the stage.  It was amazing.  Few years later, I was at another big concert up in New York, and (uh) heading back out of the concert area-- I was trying to get out.  I had hitchhiked in.  Don’t I get picked up by a great big bread van, which is holding the Rolling Stones inside, heading to the airport, and they gave me a ride in the back of the air-- back of the van.  All the way to the airport, I rode with the Rolling Stones.  The traffic was so busy ’t people would’ve stopped the limousines, ’se there’s too many people on the street.  You couldn’t get through in a limousine.  They came to-- Like the Beatles used to do, arrive an’ leave in bread trucks and armored cars.  [Laughs]  Lots and lots of fun.  Keith Richards is a tremendous bore.

UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY JACQUELINE BAKER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR TRANSCRIPTIONS, July 2, 2008

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