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 phonological process displayed by the informant(s). The synchronization of velic closure throughout the continuum does not always take account of phonological segmentation. Consequently, whole stretches of speech may be slightly, or even heavily nasalized; on the other hand, nasal segments are sometimes only nasal for half their duration, and occasionally not nasal at all. The coventry accent can be seen as sharing some characteristics with more northerly ones and some with southern ones.
