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Tense phonemes are articulated with greater distinctiveness and pressure than the corresponding lax phonemes. The muscular strain affects the tongue, the walls of the vocal tract and the glottis. The higher tension is associated with greater deformation of the entire vocal tract from its neutral position.
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least for high and mid vowels. The tense vowels, when not part of a diphthong, are phonetically long. Tense vs. lax distinctions are sometimes held to be inoperative for low vowels. On the other hand, some authors use this property to distinguish a tense form of [æ], often written [ǣ], which appears in Philadelphia English in words such as mad,
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l Duncan, New York University, dad463@nyu.eduIntroduction: The vowel /æ/ is widely studied as a socio. nguistic variable in American English (AmE). Several dialects have both the lax [æ] allophone and an allophone [ɛə] that is described as raised and tens. , even though the vowel is historically lax. This is noteworthy because phonotactic ...
Other details and charts in the reading are there to help you understand this central information Goal: Know all of the symbols and descriptions for the vowels in Figure 2.11 (CL p 42) We will describe vowels using the following four. phonetic properties: height. backness. rounding. tense/lax.
2.1 Description. English is generally described as having a distinction between tense and lax vowels. Minimal pairs such as hit-heat, bet-bait, soot-suit, butt-boat illustrate this con-trast. In each pair, the lax vowel has a short, monoph-thongal pronunciation rather centralized with respect to.
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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 ...
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Jun 21, 2016 · The production of the lax vowel /æ/ is widely studied as a so ciolinguistic variable in American. English, as several dialects differ in the allophonic distribution of the vo wel. In this paper ...
