This chapter has discussed the vowel system of a single speaker from Anniston Alabama from a number of directions. The surface inventory of the Alabama vowel system was explored at length and a proposal for its phonological structure was made. The overall shape of vowel formant space was examined. Impressionistic transcriptions of stressed tokens of each of the vowels were listed and discussed. Bootstrap resampling was used to display estimates of the mean locations for each vowel. These formant-frequency means were described in terms of historical sound changes that influenced them The effects of stress on vowel quality were explored, finding effects of reduction towards a high, somewhat front reduction target, as well as effects of reduction of nuclei in the direction of their offglides. Differences in the effects of following consonants between this speaker and those of other dialects are discussed in Chapter 10, where it is shown that vowels occurring before // are significantly lowered, a phonetic rule which seems to be characteristic of this dialect. While much remains in the description of the linguistic system of phonetic implementation for this dialect, some important steps have here been made in that direction.