Wikipedia encourages editors to use IPA symbols to give pronunciations of relevant words. One of the articles designed to help editors is Help: IPA. In this, a large selection of IPA vowels and consonants are listed in the form of a big table. Each symbol has a loudspeaker icon for you to click to hear a recording of the sound, and the symbol itself links to an appropriate article; you may be surprised to hear that WP has a separate article on just about every possible IPA segment. The layout of the items is a bit unfamiliar to phoneticians – since the page is aimed an non-phoneticians wanting to look up possible symbols, they appear under the letter of the alphabet that they resemble.
I’ve listened to all the items, and found fault with a number of them. Some are just slightly off what I think is the correct pronunciation, others seem a bit weird. I’ve made notes on each item and written them in the right-hand column of the table, then copied this to my personal space on WP (the so-called “sandbox”) which you can find here. If you’re interested, you can listen to the recordings and find if your opinion of the sound agrees with mine.
I’ve listened to all the items, and found fault with a number of them. Some are just slightly off what I think is the correct pronunciation, others seem a bit weird. I’ve made notes on each item and written them in the right-hand column of the table, then copied this to my personal space on WP (the so-called “sandbox”) which you can find here. If you’re interested, you can listen to the recordings and find if your opinion of the sound agrees with mine.
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