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Cardinal VOWEL SYSTEM

Cardinal Vowel System
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Cardinal vowel is basically a system or mechanism for the description of vowel sound in English.
The idea was generated in 1918 by British phonetician when Daniel Jones gave an idea about primary Cardinal vowel system and then he talked about secondary Cardinal vowel.
Cardinal vowels are decided on the basis of auditory abilities of the vocal sound.
Eight corners were given of the tongue, it starts from high position, then mid high, mid low and low.
.......................... => High
\........................| => Mid High
\......................| => Mid Low
\....................| => Low
( Position of tongue)
These are the four corner of the front and back of the tongue.
Cardinal vowels are a linguistic construction devised by Daniel Jones to organize a consistent vowel sound classification.
It is based on two possible tongue position.
1: Front to back
2: High to low
=> Front to back:
It signifies the position of the tongue that range from farthest forward at teeth to furthest backward at the throat.
=> High to low:
It signifies the positions of the tongue that range from the closest to the the palette of the mouth to the furthest from the palette in vowel formation.

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