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 some general conventions of the IPA with the some exceptions: stress is marked with an acute accent over the vowel of the syllable in question, labiodental stops are written for voiceless and voiced respectively and glottally reinforced sounds are written with the glottal stop symbol immediately above the other symbol. It is assumed that all unstressed vowels are centralized in comparison with their stressed counterparts.
