ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a series of analysis of colloquial spoken language, to illustrate some of the variety of phonological features of British English. It also presents a general description of the phonetic features of the informant(s) including vowel diagrams, followed by the transcription of the recording of the informant(s). The extracts have been chosen to exemplify all the characteristic features of the speaker's accent occurring in the recording. The chapter discusses each phonological process displayed by the informant(s). There are a number of characteristics of the Edinburgh speech which are quite different from those of the other accents. The vowel articulations have a tendency to be fairly centralized, even in stressed syllables. Most of the vowels are found in unstressed as well as stressed syllables. As with lenition, there is less evidence of harmony in the speech of the two informants than is the case in other accents.
