The Cardinal Vowels with Daniel Jones

Listen and learn as famed phonetician Daniel Jones narrates the 18 Cardinal Vowels.
These phonetic reference points are necessary to master the IPA vowel system.
Because you probably woke up this morning saying "Hey, I should probably master the IPA vowel system."

[@cincincincin]

Because you probably woke up this morning saying "Hey, I should probably master the IPA vowel system." HAHAHAHA

[@josefk5659]

I think most of us here are linguistics students

[@chtulubarnes9045]

I did

[@joaohax52]

not at all

[@ruochenlin7994]

It’s after lunch today that I had this thought, actually

[@elamiri858]

the way I actually did

[@nohaylamujer]

Thank you for this upload. Not only are these recordings of enormous historical importance but they also mean a great deal to me. In the late 70s, during my training as a linguist, I studied under a disciple of Professor Jones: These recordings were mandatory practice material for ear training from day one of her phonology course.

[@Nextgame22]

0:30 Peter Griffin, are you? xD

[@TheMoroPL]

Good job, my grammar professor included this video in his lecture.

[@nohaylamujer]

What people don't seem to understand is that, in these recordings, Daniel Jones is NOT pronouncing vowels that are part of the catalogue of any language. The cardinal vowels are theoretical reference points that linguists use to formulate the description of actual vowels.

[@Melbuser30]

Thanks for posting

[@LaLa-ht8if]

Fuck phonetics I've never got a satisfying grade in it

[@BEJ073]

Thaks for posting this!

[@altosaxophonie]

guys be too scared to moan during sex but i be in my girl’s ear like 1:27

[@user-gl6mx8je1r]

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[@receivedSE]

One of my favourite scientists in field of linguistics is Daniel Jones. Now, where is Alfred C. Gimson?

[@ican281]

This video is very great

[@skfln]

That's not the FRENCH y he's pronouncing, but CARDINAL y!!! And of course, he wouldn't have to work on it, he pronounced it perfectly.

[@johan-nn4pr]

more like the system of what sound to annoy someone with based on the metrics of how much you dislike them

[@kr1t1ana]

Excellent - I was going to upload an old recodiring of Daniel Jones pronouncing the Cardinal Vowels, but this is a better recrding and also has much better visuals. Well done!

[@frindtlevente]

David Landin Please still upload what you wanted to! I'd be really glad; all such recordings are interesting!

[@receivedSE]

@@frindtlevente I agree. All recordings of Daniel Jones are treasures. Upload it to KZbin, please, Mr Landin. By the way, I am looking for the recording of A.C. Gimson. I wonder where I can get it.

[@receivedSE]

English Pronouncing Dictionary (Dent, 1977), An Outline of English Phonetics and Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Of Current English (1974) are my favourite books. They are old, but they are excellent.

[@attaullahhumayun3814]

Thanks for sharing it❤

[@kitohnguyai1774]

I had a laughing crisis in class because of this video.

[@orbitingteapot]

Thanks! I just threw this together, the editing program I used wasn't cooperative. Maybe I'll do something better- example english words, or maybe multi-lingual charts.

[@leon.s.kennedy8295]

Thank u ❤

[@maryam5759]

perfect! this can help us learn new languages by knowing how to read this vowel diagram, it will be easier to pronounce sounds better.

[@baronmeduse]

The general IPA for English is no longer pronounced like this.

[@alex-ix9jb]

This is like Brain Power slowed down extremely

[@ali5997]

Good morning linguistics nerds

[@darsana1966]

This was great help since my exams are coming up. Thanks!

[@baronmeduse]

Is it an exam about defunct versions of RP?

[@misakiokasako620]

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[@petersuranyi7309]

The eight primary cardinal vowels each pronounced twice short and once long. ði 'eit 'praiməri 'kɑ:dinəl 'vauəlz 'i:tʃ prə'naunst 'twais 'ʃɔ:t ənd 'wʌns 'lɔŋ Here are the first eight seconary cardinal vowels said approximately on the note 'F natural' of New Philharmonic Pitch. 'hiər ə ðə 'fə:st 'eit 'sekəndri 'kɑ:dinəl 'vauəlz 'sed ə'prɔksimitli ɔn ðə 'nout 'ef 'nætʃrəl əv 'nju: filɑ:'mɔnik 'pitʃ

[@EDUOBVIOUS]

Very useful 👌👌👌

[@CarolinaSazet]

uuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[@ramirogutierrez6312]

Super Good. It help me a lot with my English pronunciation.

[@missnounas6770]

Is it Daniel jones' voice in this video?

[@Juannellul]

right? RIGHT? ><

[@skfln]

Well, I speak Hungarian, which also has an [y]-type vowel. I studied French for a few years with a native instructor, and I think there is no difference between French [y] and Hungarian [y]. However, I think neither of them are identical to the cardinal [y] sound. In my opinion, it is not that his pronunciation was not perfect, and this is why it differed from your French [y], but because French [y] differs from the cardinal sound.

[@ulfr-gunnarsson]

The cardinal vowels are not the vowels of any given language, but a reference points for phonologists to compare vowels. So, no vowels of any of the world's languages are the cardinal vowels, but they can approach the quality of cardinals.

[@rawan1290]

I hate phonetics

[@MimiimaneSitetouati]

Me too

[@LaLa-ht8if]

Thank you for the video tho

[@vaughanrichards7438]

This is very useful and thanks for posting Although it is a work of serious scholarship it also contains a lot of unintentional humour. The bit when he pronounces them on a rising intonation has not been included and it is side - splittingly funny. It sounds like a sheep bleating.

[@EvalynRoberts]

These vowels actually don't exist in any language. Cardinal vowels are a system of measurement used by phoneticians to classify and compare vowels from different languages. They "fence in" the area of the mouth where vowels are articulated. Though you have to keep practicing them to make sure you don't forget them. A bit of a pain.

[@josefk5659]

They certainly exist but you're right in stating that they aren't precise and take place in a general area of the mouth.

[@gurglscum]

bro im on the weird side of utube again 🥴🥴🥴

[@hopeisontheway3458]

:) :) :)

[@user-vm5in5eu5m]

+3

[@orbitingteapot]

aaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[@yohei2957]

大学で英語音声学を取ってるので、助かります

[@khadijaelyounssi5318]

Good job

[@Yuki-ov7do]

1:20

[@user-eu2qv6ht1r]

Who's from the phonetic analysis work package 1?

[@kalinga2nihon]

ɒɒ ɒɒɒ ɒɒɒɒɒɒɒɒɒɒɒ

[@kravcio]

schwa schwa schwaaaaaaaaaaa

[@user-fs7ji6fw3u]

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[@gajulo]

The only reason I mentionned French is because like the Germans or Finns, we have this cardinal [y], which anglophones don't. His pronounciation of the [y] is almost perfect, but I just had to mention it was not as perfect as his pronounciation of the other vowels I know from my mother tongue [œ], [ɔ], [ø]. Since [y] is a close front rounded vowel, it should be just a little more "closed". That's all... :)

[@nomenestomen8952]

funny

[@skfln]

I would dispute, based on the little Italian I heard, that Italian /ɔ/ would be cardinal. I percieve it as being decidedly opener than C [ɔ]. (Or maybe it's more centralized)

[@wielandhartwich3184]

Thank God no language sounds so artificial and unnatural.

[@CcBlueBana]

oooooooo oooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[@ytang3]

English almost doesn't have these sounds. Everything is so centralized for us - pure vowels sound like Japanese or Spanish to us.

[@ulfr-gunnarsson]

Actually, no language in the world has vowels of exactly this qualities. The cardinal vowels are more of reference point for phoneticians to compare vowels to, not a vowel system on its own right.

[@ytang3]

@@ulfr-gunnarsson true, but Spanish is a hell of a lot closer than centralized American English

[@F00dTube]

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[@emmajani4261]

/lai/ /la:i/ laaaaaa:i/.... Loolx

[@detomoylomo]

it's a bit funny the voice of this profesor, but it's been helpfull to me cause i study english a a second language

[@matikorn]

@matikorn yeah it's just that I thought that daniel Jones created the diagram to locate ENGLISH vowels... so I saw those phonemes that are not english and it kinda made me feel confused...

[@gajulo]

I don't know, but I can say, at least, that he pronounces most French sounds quite well, since it is my mother tongue. Impressive. He may somewhat work on his "y", but that's it... Anyway, it's very difficult for any English-speaking person.

[@detomoylomo]

eeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@enter19]

how can he pronounce all these vowels ? there are many vowels that don't exist in English ?

[@matikorn]

Can Anyone tell me why there are weird symbols that doesn't correspond to the english language? I mean I'm a bit confused because i've learned all of the phonemes but there are like a bunch of phonemes that are not english in the cardinal vowel system, why's that?

[@leon.s.kennedy8295]

Because these are for all languages, Cardinal vowels are not (English) !

[@receivedpronunciation6696]

Daniel Jones is talking about the speech sounds in general....general linguistics or phonology.

[@koffiegast]

The y sounded different from the y in my language (dutch) and the central i... it sounds different and easier than when a russian try to say it for me...

[@Eve23666]

lol))))))

[@Andreas-ri2jn]

Very helpful, thanks, but the pronunciation of /y/ is not correct :)

[@frindtlevente]

Andreas Berg It is. It's just that we're not accustomed to this sound, because in well-known languages that have an y-like vowel (e.g. French, German, Hungarian), the y differs significantly from that heard here (it is retracted). Interesting quote from Gimson's 'An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English': " [about the pronunciation of English lowered-retracted i as in 'it'] [A] [y] sound, as in French 'but', said with relaxed spread lips, will come near to the English [retracted lowered high-front vowel]. It is implicit in this that French etc. y is not cardinal. The real cardinal y can be arrived at by rounding the lips and pronouncing a fully front _cardinal_ i.

[@user-en8uy7vo9o]

In learning Englsih ,everything is enjoyable but Phonetics .

[@princeicio]

boring boring boooooooring

[@pngtime4comment]

princeicio wheres ur pronunciation manual brah

[@IggyMontpellierPro]

princeicio Didn't you laugh with number 4 and 5? It was like a sheep cumming.

[@receivedpronunciation6696]

@Junior17 This linguistic discussion is for linguists or for people who are studying linguistics only. Of course, it is boring to people who do not love linguistics. The same "boring" feeling happens to people who do not like football, but they try to watch a football match on television.

[@princeicio]

@@ramamonato5039 Has it ever occurred to you that I might be a student of English?

[@princeicio]

@@ramamonato5039 sounds like you're the one who's free why are you so interested in a comment I posted 9 years ago? You talk too much

[@abrarkhalid5892]

these vowels are not exist in any language

[@wardakawtar8726]

existed*

[@yousefshaaban8546]

Not interesting

[@ramamonato5039]

@yousefshaaban8546 I know why you feel boring with this video. It is because you are not interested in phonetics and because you do not know what Daniel Jones is talking about here. But what I do understand is...why did you watch this video? If you don't like linguistic videos, you can immediately watch other videos which you like.

[@cherie_re]

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