PHO107 - Basic Segments of Speech (Vowels I)
Channel: The Virtual Linguistics Campus
Date: 12/06/2012

The focus of this most popular VLC-E-Lecture is the system of Cardinal Vowels. Jürgen Handke not only discusses the phonetic description of vowel articulation, he also shows how the Cardinal Vowel Chart can be developed and constructed - and last but not least: he produces the Primary and Secondary set of Cardinal Vowels. This includes snapshots of the tongue position in each case and a real-time anterior view for each vowel. The follow-up E-Lecture Vowels II discusses the use of the cardinal vowels as reference vowels for the types of vowels that exist in the languages of the world.