ABSTRACT
This chapter determines how both the differences and the similarities of phonological variation in British English account within the general framework of native speaker competence. It establishes a relatively small set of phonological processes to relate different styles of speech within one variety. The chapter presents a general description of the phonetic features of the informants including vowel diagrams, followed by the transcription of the recording of the informants. The extracts have been chosen to exemplify all the characteristic features of the speaker's accent occurring in the recording. The chapter provides information of two women informants lived in Peasmarsh. Both speakers have a relatively tense musculature. The feature of final devoicing of voiced stops and fricatives in prepausal position and before voiceless sounds, which is widespread in most accents of English, occurs in the speech of both speakers even before voiced sounds, in word-final position.
