| Berlin | dgskorpus_ber_11 | 61+m People will be born deaf again and again, or they lose their hearing early in life, you can find that just about everywhere. |
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| Berlin | dgskorpus_ber_11 | 61+m Well, people nowadays are afraid of having a deaf child, that is what it is. |
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| m | | kind | angst | | angst | [MG] | |
| Köln (Cologne) | dgskorpus_koe_07 | 61+m My deafness was discovered when I was 1.5 years old. |
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| m | ich | geboren | einhalb | | taub |
| Köln (Cologne) | dgskorpus_koe_17 | 61+f So, I was born in #193X. |
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| m | also | | | geboren | #neunzehnhundertx |
| Köln (Cologne) | dgskorpus_koe_17 | 61+f That’s why I was born in Austria. After, I don’t remember exactly when because I was still very young, we moved a lot of times; to Graz, to Berlin, to Klagenfurt. |
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| m | | österreich | geboren | dann | ich | klein |
| Köln (Cologne) | dgskorpus_koe_17 | 61+f I was sad until my boss, who had had a lot of miscarriages, wanted to sell the company. |
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| m | chefin | viel | fehlgeburt | fehlgeburt | möchte |
| Köln (Cologne) | dgskorpus_koe_17 | 61+f I was sad until my boss, who had had a lot of miscarriages, wanted to sell the company. |
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| m | fehlgeburt | fehlgeburt | möchte | |
| Köln (Cologne) | dgskorpus_koe_17 | 61+f Were you hearing at first or were you born deaf? |
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| m | hörend | gewesen | schon | geburt | taub |
| Köln (Cologne) | dgskorpus_koe_17 | 61+f I have two children. At first I had a boy and I was ecstatic. |
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| m | | zwei | [MG] | junge | [MG] |
| Münster | dgskorpus_mst_10 | 46-60f But later, my first child was born and was supposed to be baptized. |
| r | | TO-WIND1^ | I1* | BIRTH5 | $INDEX1 | BAPTISM2* |
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| m | | | [MG] | | taufe |
| Schleswig-Holstein | dgskorpus_sh_07 | 31-45m I’d just had a baby and therefore I couldn't come at that point. |
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| Köln (Cologne) | dgskorpus_koe_17 | 61+f I was born in Austria, because my father worked as a border guard. |
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| m | | österreich | geboren | weil | mein | vater |
| Münster | dgskorpus_mst_13 | 46-60f I was born in October and therefore the youngest one in class when I enrolled. |
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| m | [MG] | ich | oktober | darum | | |
| München (Munich) | dgskorpus_mue_07 | 18-30m I was born into a family with deaf parents and therefore it is obvious I was raised with Sign Language. |
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