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PRONUNCIATION OF CARDINAL VOWELS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CARDINAL VOWELS

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Cardinal vowels is a noun.
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WHAT DOES CARDINAL VOWELS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

cardinal vowels

Cardinal vowels

Cardinal vowels are a set of reference vowels used by phoneticians in describing the sounds of languages. For instance, the vowel of the English word "feet" can be described with reference to cardinal vowel 1,, which is the cardinal vowel closest to it. A cardinal vowel is a vowel sound produced when the tongue is in an extreme position, either front or back, high or low. The current system was systematised by Daniel Jones in the early 20th century, though the idea goes back to earlier phoneticians, notably Ellis and Bell. Three of the cardinal vowels—, and —have articulatory definitions. The vowel is produced with the tongue as far forward and as high in the mouth as is possible, with spread lips. The vowel is produced with the tongue as far back and as high in the mouth as is possible, with protruded lips. This sound can be approximated by adopting the posture to whistle a very low note, or to blow out a candle. And is produced with the tongue as low and as far back in the mouth as possible. The other vowels are 'auditorily equidistant' between these three 'corner vowels', at four degrees of aperture or 'height': close, close-mid, open-mid, and open.

Definition of cardinal vowels in the English dictionary

The definition of cardinal vowels in the dictionary is a set of theoretical vowel sounds, based on the shape of the mouth needed to articulate them, that can be used to classify the vowel sounds of any speaker in any language.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CARDINAL VOWELS

cardinal
cardinal beetle
cardinal fish
cardinal flower
cardinal grosbeak
cardinal humour
cardinal number
cardinal numeral
cardinal points
cardinal red
cardinal sin
cardinal spider
cardinal virtues
cardinalate
cardinalatial
cardinalitial
cardinality
cardinally
cardinalship
carding

WORDS THAT END LIKE CARDINAL VOWELS

alloy wheels
bowels
Brussels
cool one´s heels
cracked heels
crown jewels
Engels
family jewels
flannels
Goebbels
goods and chattels
head over heels
heels
high heels
kennels
Novels
steels
travels
Wels
wheels

Synonyms and antonyms of cardinal vowels in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «cardinal vowels» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CARDINAL VOWELS

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The translations of cardinal vowels from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cardinal vowels» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

基本元音
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

vocales cardinales
570 millions of speakers

English

cardinal vowels
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कार्डिनल स्वर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حروف العلة الأساسية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кардинальные гласные
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

vogais cardeais
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কার্ডিনাল স্বরবর্ণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

voyelles cardinales
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Vokal kardinal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kardinal Vokale
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

カーディナル母音
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

추기경 모음
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Huruf kardinal
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nguyên âm hồng y
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கார்டினல் உயிர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मुख्य स्वर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kardinal sesli harfler
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

vocali cardinali
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

samogłoski kardynalne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кардинальні голосні
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

vocalele cardinale
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καρδινάλιος φωνήεντα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kardinale vokale
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kardinal vokaler
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kardinal vokaler
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CARDINAL VOWELS»

Discover the use of cardinal vowels in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cardinal vowels and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Applied English Phonology
languages, and then we will give a brief description of 'cardinal vowels', which are commonly used for reference points in talking about the vowels of other languages. Although it is commonplace to find front vowels as unrounded, there are ...
Mehmet Yavas, 2011
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English Phonetics and Phonology Paperback with Audio CDs ...
These cardinal vowels are a standard reference system, and people being trained in phonetics at an advanced level have to learn to make them accurately and recognise them correctly. If you learn the cardinal vowels, you are not learning to ...
Peter Roach, 2009
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Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics
5.4.1 Cardinal vowels Because of the inherent difficulties of defining tongue positions, phoneticians appeal to a set of reference point vowels. These are called cardinal vowels. The cardinal vowels define "fixed points" in articulatory " vowel ...
René Dirven, Marjolyn Verspoor, 2004
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Introducing Phonetic Science
As an alternative to specifying the location, height and lip-posture for a vowel, the vowel quality can be related to one of a set of language- independent, reference vowel qualities known as the cardinal vowels. These can be thought of as ...
Michael Ashby, John Maidment, 2005
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Principles of Phonetics
Jones then specified a set of six other vocoids - Cardinal Vowels 2 [e], 3 [e] and 4 [a] as a front series on the periphery of the vocoid space dividing the vertical tand auditory1 distance hetween Cardinal Vowels 1 and 5 into equal intervals.
John Laver, 1994
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A Course in Phonetics
With its reader-friendly writing style, the book introduces concepts of speech production, describes speech in acoustic terms, and teaches practical phonetic skills, including IPA transcription.
Peter Ladefoged, Keith Johnson, 2014
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Phonetics for Communication Disorders
Jones decided to establish a small set of cardinal vowels that could be used in this manner. He decided that his cardinal vowels would be independent of any particular language, and that they should be situated around the periphery of the  ...
Martin J. Ball, Nicole Muller, 2014
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Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A Guide ...
To reflect this, eight 'secondary cardinal vowels' are therefore defined which differ only in lip position from their primary counterparts. These are shown paired with their primary counterparts in the fourth part of figure 4. So, for example, of the ...
International Phonetic Association, 1999
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English Phonetics and Phonology for Spanish Speakers + CD ...
Brian Leonard Mott. 3.5. The Cardinal Vowels The Cardinal Vowels are a system of reference points devised by Daniel Jones (1881-1967), ProfessorofPhonetics atUniversityCollege London from 1921 to 1947. The spatial equidistance of the ...
Brian Leonard Mott, 2011
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The Sounds of Language: An Introduction to Phonetics and ...
Iust as the cardinal points of a compass (N, S, E, W) provide reference points for orienta— tion in geography, the cardinal vowels provide reference points for orientation in the vowel space. Iones defined eighteen cardinal vowels, using a mix ...
Elizabeth C. Zsiga, 2012

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« EDUCALINGO. Cardinal vowels [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cardinal-vowels>. Apr 2024 ».
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