Subject moved to Levenshulme, a suburb of Manchester, at 6 months old, and has lived in London the last three years.
Subject is training at Central School of Speech and Drama in North London.
Erm, I’m, I was born in London, but I moved after about six months, so I don’t really remember it, and I’ve lived in Levenshulme for the rest of my life, which is in Manchester, about, in South Manchester, about three miles-ish from the city centre. So it’s quite central. Em, I went to school in Hulme, em, which is pretty central as well, like, mm, closer into the city centre; it’s like near like Hulme, Moss Side, kind of that area; em, my dad’s from Bolton, so all my family are from Bolton, and my- but my mum’s from Watford. But my-m-my mum’s family we didn’t see as much ‘cause obviously they were further away and she doesn’t have as big a family. So I guess I probably spent more of my childhood with my dad’s family than with my mum’s. Em, and now I’ve lived in London, well up and down; I’m in the third year of my course now, so I’ve moved up I’ve moved up and down throughout holidays and this and that for the past three years. Erm, I think my accent does change when I’m in London; I think it becomes less strong, and I speak more slowly because I know at home I speak really, really quickly, and when I’m with my friends. Em, but then as soon as I go back home I think it gets stronger again.
· Hesitation sound close to Cardinal Vowel 3.
· Unrounded fronted GOOSE vowel.
· Close fronted NURSE vowel.
· “Less strong” closes with the /g/ rather than the preceding velar nasal.
· Diphthongs for “I” and “my” are both flattened into a retracted TRAP vowel.
· Glottal replacement of intervocalic /t/.
· Fronted first element on PRICE vowel; this vowel is also somewhat monopthongised.
· Backed first element on GOAT vowel.
· “I went to schoo-uhl” realised as a two-syllable word.