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 details of an informant, who born in Shepherd's Bush and moved to Northolt. There has been no noticeable adoption of any Norfolk pronunciations. A comparison with Cockney pronunciation shows up a number of differences. Most stops have a complete closure, though there is a tendency to produce flaps in intervocalic position.
