Name: Rahul

Age: 23 years

Place: Dhanbad, Delhi

passing object gift morning wood stream

other since canteen brought guy
straight stick point either near cricket
given corridor hardly wake

The _____________day we were just _____________around and fou-found a

_____________of _____________lying around at some point… just _____________it

up. We had a… _____________of a ball from some _____________[laughs] in the

morning. He just brought it in and then we started playing _____________in the

_____________[laughs]. And…even the teachers don’t _____________at this

_____________of time…_____________up on us [laughs]…_____________…come at

nine in the _____________, we _________________up at nine other days, but

_____________it’s cricket we wake up at nine… _____________in here, walk in

_____________to [unclear] _____________the tea _____________there, and then start

playing…

Comments:

This speech is very close to the standard variety of phonology described in the text. The

speaker mostly uses alveolar /t/. /d/ also tends to be alveolar. There is no aspiration of /p/.

Dental /d/ is used.

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Name: Rahul

Age: 23 years

Place: Dhanbad, Delhi

The other day we were just passing around and fou-found a wood of stick lying around at

some point… just brought it up. We had a… gift of a ball from some guy [laughs] in the

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morning. He just brought it in and then we started playing cricket in the corridor [laughs].

And…even the teachers don’t object at this point of time…given up on us [laughs]…

either …come at nine in the morning, we hardly wake up at nine other days, but since it’s

cricket we wake up at nine… stream in here, walk in straight to [unclear] near the tea

canteen there, and then start playing…

Comments:

This speech is very close to the standard variety of phonology described in the text. The

speaker mostly uses alveolar /t/. /d/ also tends to be alveolar. There is no aspiration of /p/.

Dental /d/ is used.