SIARAD - Davies17
Instances of Norman for speaker ROB

396ROBachos pan [/] pan wnes i ddechrau (e)fo xxx llynedd umCE # o'n i justCE (we)di siarad Saesneg efo NormanCE yn naturiol (fe)lly .
  becausebecause.CONJ whenwhen.CONJ whenwhen.CONJ do.1S.PASTdo.V.1S.PAST+SM PRON.1SI.PRON.1S start.NONFINbegin.V.INFIN+SM withwith.PREP last_yearlast year.ADV IMum.IM be.1S.IMPbe.V.1S.IMPERF PRON.1SI.PRON.1S IMjust.ADV justafter.PREP PRT.PASTtalk.V.INFIN speak.NONFINEnglish.N.F.SG Englishwith.PREP withname NormanPRT PRTnatural.ADJ naturalso.ADV thus
  because when...when I started with [...] last year, um, I just naturally started speaking English with Norman, like
412ROB<dim # ella> [//] # ac [?] enwedig efo NormanCE dim # fel bod o (y)n # Gymraeg ail iaith ddim o_gwbl ond # Cymraeg rywun sy ddim yn dewis siarad Cymraeg fel iaith gynta # os (y)dy hynny wneud unrhyw senseCE timod # bod nhw (we)di dewis ers blynyddoedd # siarad Saesneg yn lle # siarad Cymraeg # a bod y gallu yna ond # bod (y)na rywbeth +.. .
  NEGnothing.N.M.SG.[or].not.ADV perhapsmaybe.ADV andand.CONJ particularespecially.ADJ withwith.PREP Normanname NEGnothing.N.M.SG.[or].not.ADV likelike.CONJ be.NONFINbe.V.INFIN PRON.3SMhe.PRON.M.3S PRTin.PREP WelshWelsh.N.F.SG+SM secondsecond.ORD languagelanguage.N.F.SG NEGnothing.N.M.SG+SM.[or].not.ADV+SM at_allat_all.ADV butbut.CONJ WelshWelsh.N.F.SG somebodysomeone.N.M.SG+SM be.PRES.RELbe.V.3S.PRES.REL NEGnot.ADV+SM PRTPRT choose.NONFINchoose.V.INFIN speak.NONFINtalk.V.INFIN WelshWelsh.N.F.SG likelike.CONJ languagelanguage.N.F.SG firstfirst.ORD+SM ifif.CONJ be.3S.PRESbe.V.3S.PRES thatthat.PRON.DEM.SP do.NONFINmake.V.INFIN+SM anyany.ADJ sensesense.N.SG know.2Sknow.V.2S.PRES be.NONFINbe.V.INFIN PRON.3PLthey.PRON.3P PRT.PASTafter.PREP choose.NONFINchoose.V.INFIN sincesince.PREP yearsyears.N.F.PL speak.NONFINtalk.V.INFIN EnglishEnglish.N.F.SG inin.PREP placewhere.INT speak.NONFINtalk.V.INFIN WelshWelsh.N.F.SG andand.CONJ be.NONFINbe.V.INFIN DETthe.DET.DEF abilitycapability.N.M.SG therethere.ADV butbut.CONJ be.NONFINbe.V.INFIN therethere.ADV somethingsomething.N.M.SG+SM
  not perhaps...and particularly with Norman, not that he's like second language Welsh, not at all, but the Welsh of someone who doesn't choose to speak Welsh as a first language, if that makes any sense, you know, that they've chosen for years to speak English instead of speaking Welsh, and that the ability's there but that there's something...

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