Re: IPA soundfiles (was: Phonetics vs. Phonemics)

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, John Vertical wrote:
>
> >I could really do with a GOOD
> >website offering exact pronunciations of all vowels
> >recognised in the IPA in a number of different contexts.
> >Is there anything like that available anywhere?
>
> This is the best soundfile site out there IMO:
> http://wso.williams.edu/~jdowse/ipa.html
> (But even it still offers vowels only in isolation.)

Thanks, John!  That is really rather good!  The page is
nicely laid out and easy to use.  A very commendable
effort indeed from Jonathan Dowse.

Can anyone vouch for the accuracy of the sounds?
I noticed that a couple of the consonants - one
epiglottal, and one click, from memory - had sounds
remarkably like a /b/, despite their POA being far
from labial.  Also, the "e" vowel seems more lax than
I would have expected.

Regards,
Yahya

--
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.0/269 - Release Date: 24/2/06