The texts analysed here were kindly provided by Astrid Menz. They were originally published in \tcite{Menz1999} with a German translation, based on Menz' fieldwork. We have provided an English-language translation.
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Unfortunately it has not been possible to locate the corresponding sound files. For a short summary of Gagauz syntax, see \tcite{Menz2013}.\footnote{\url{https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/resources/wowa/data/_pubs/Menz2013_gagauz.pdf}}

Text A (labelled \sqt{Text 1} in \bcite{Menz1999} is a recording of a 43-year-old male speaker from Tomai village, recorded there in the summer of 1995. The speaker has completed secondary education, and has excellent Russian language proficiency. In this text, the speaker recounts a number of events from his childhood and teenage years. His wife can occasionally be heard in the background. Her speech was also transcribed; her utterances are marked with \dqt{F:} in order to distinguish them from those of the main speaker. Where her turns consist of only a single word, they were not numbered separately. Since she sat some distance from the microphone, not all of her utterances could be transcribed. At two points the interviewers were asked questions; their answers were transcribed as well (marked with \dqt{I:}), since they are crucial for comprehending the text that follows, but they were likewise not numbered separately. 

Text B (labelled \sqt{Text 7} in \bcite{Menz1999}) is a recording of a 67-year-old male speaker from Copceac, recorded in Chişinau in the summer of 1995. The speaker studied to become a teacher after spending some time at a religious seminary. He is the only informant recorded for \tcite{Menz1999} who speaks excellent Romanian in addition to Russian. The speaker spent some time in Turkey, with noticable effects on his vocabulary. Like the speaker of the first text, he recounts various episodes from his youth. One of these episodes, about a mulberry tree, was turned into a Gagauz children's book by the speaker.
