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In article <35rdgr$bst@nntp1.u.washington.edu>,
George Dillon <dillon@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>I have set up and will maintain for some time an archive 
>of online resources for studying speech sounds, primarily 
>English (http://alfred1.u.washington.edu:8080/~dillon/
>PhonResources.html). Here are (1)symbols/samples of English 
>phones/phonemes,both British and American (cum grano salis).
>(2)tips, tutorials, and basic walk-throughs of waveform 
>analysis (3) examples and links to text-to-speech synthe-
>sizers, mainly in Europe. Please email me if you have other
>links to suggest.

The vowel section includes several peculiarities.
e should be E
the vowel of cot should be /A/, unless you're
from Chicago.  I do not distinguish the vowel of palm from the
vowel of cot; I suspect the only Americans
who do would prefer upside down script a for cot.
The only other use of /a/ without /I/ in the US is southern
kite.  The vowels of worker are missing.  Most people
don't bother to distinguish @ and V for American speech.
The differences can be understood as side effects of
stress.

The pronunciation indicated by IPA /ij/ and /uw/ indicates to me
something I consider a regionalism, but that's a matter of
taste.  It reminds me of Irving R. Levine /l@vI::in/.
(Fingernails on blackboard shrug-like gesture).
