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 vowel system has more distinctions, reflecting earlier stages of English. In one instance the vowel may be the reflex of what was originally a long vowel anyway, even though it was shortened in most accents. The rhythm of Norwich speech is unlike that of the other accents. The quantity of both stressed and unstressed vowels varies considerably, and length of both monophthongs and diphthongs in stressed syllables may be considerable.
