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In linguistics, fortis and lenis (/ ˈfɔːrtɪs / FOR-tiss and / ˈliːnɪs, ˈlɛnɪs / LEE-niss, LEN-iss; [1] Latin for "strong" and "weak"), sometimes identified with 'tense' and 'lax', are pronunciations of consonants with relatively greater and lesser energy, respectively. English has fortis consonants, such as the p in pat, with a ...
In contrast, the X and Y chromosome synapse only in the short homologous pseudoautosomal regions, and form the so-called XY body. 1 In this specialized chromatin area, transcription is shut down by a mechanism named meiotic sex chromosome inactivation (MSCI) (reviewed by Refs. 2 and 3). The sex chromosomes remain silent throughout the rest of ...
The final piece of information that we use to classify vowels is a little trickier to explain. English makes a distinction between tense and lax vowels, which is a distinction that a lot of other languages don’t have. Tense vowels are made with greater tension in the muscles of the vocal tract than lax vowels.
- Catherine Anderson
- 2018
In a tense vowel the sum of the deviation of its formants from the neutral position is greater than that of the corresponding lax vowel. (1952: 36) Production. Tense phonemes are articulated with greater distinctiveness and pressure than the corresponding lax phonemes.
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- Jacques Durand
- 30
- 2005
string of speech sounds (phonemes); two items distinct if they differ in length or position. each phoneme is composed of a matrix of feature specifications. features are typically binary: [±Feature] features have articulatory and acoustic correlates representing the grammatically controlled aspects of the sound implemented in the phonetic ...
Trisyllabic laxing is a process which has occurred at various periods in the history of English: The earliest occurrence of trisyllabic laxing occurred in late Old English and caused stressed long vowels to become shortened before clusters of two consonants when two or more syllables followed. Later in Middle English, the process was expanded ...
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4.4 Natural Classes. It’s possible to describe an individual speech segment in terms of its phonetic features. It’s also possible to group sounds that share features into natural classes. Natural classes of sounds tend to behave similarly because they have features in common. We can distinguish obstruents, sonorants, glides, and vowels ...
