This blog is purely intended for students and teachers who have the passion for writing various articles or any school-related newspaper stories, such as editorial, feature, news, sports, entertainment, poetry, prose or creative writing, home reading report, campus buzz, including photo essays...locally contributed or written by the students, teachers and school paper advisers who are the main contributors of Guindaruhan Tribune, The Paragon-College and The Access publications.
Search This Blog
Saturday, February 2, 2013
What is Lax Vowel?
It
refers to the vowel sound that clearly produced with less tension in the vocal
cords and little tendency to diphthongize.
Lax vowels is a generally speaking, they are shorter than tense (long) vowels particular noun quality that is phonemically contrastive in many languages.
Lax vowels are also called short vowels: generally speaking, they are shorter than tense (long) vowels. (As we shall see, tense vowels have more variable length.) Another characteristic of lax vowels is that, when stressed, they are always checked.
Lax vowels, remember, are short. Tense vowels are also called long vowels; this name is slightly misleading because, in RP English at least, the tense vowels have variable length; they can be much longer than the lax vowels, but under certain conditions they become clipped, or shortened to roughly lax vowel length. Tense vowels, then, have more variable length than lax vowels. Tense vowels can be unchecked; that is, they can occur at the end of a word.
lax vowels Only tense vowels can occur in a word-final stressed open syllable in English. Mnemonics: "We may view Ma Shaw's fur coat." (All tense vowels) "Big Ben had cooked the butter." (all lax vowels.
..so that the pharynx is expanded. Tense and lax are less clearly defined terms. Tense vowels are articulated with greater muscular effort, slightly higher tongue positions, and longer durations than lax vowels.
Lax vowels are also called short vowels:
ReplyDeletegenerally speaking, they are shorter than tense (long) vowels.
Lax Vowel In linguistics, a vowel made with mostly relaxed tongue muscles [i], [e], [u], and [o], in contrast to the tense vowels like [I], [U], etc.
ReplyDeleteArticulated with the muscles involved in a relatively relaxed state (as the vowel \i\ in contrast with the vowel \ē\).
ReplyDeleteLax vowels are also known as short vowels.
ReplyDeleteLax vowels is a generally speaking, they are shorter than tense (long) vowels particular noun quality that is phonemically contrastive in many languages.
ReplyDeleteIt is also known as "short Vowels".
ReplyDeleteLax vowels are also called short vowels:
ReplyDeletegenerally speaking, they are shorter than tense (long) vowels.
(As we shall see, tense vowels have more variable length.)
Another characteristic of lax vowels is that, when stressed,
they are always checked.
Lax vowels, remember, are short. Tense vowels are also called long vowels; this name is slightly misleading because, in RP English at least, the tense vowels have variable length; they can be much longer than the lax vowels, but under certain conditions they become clipped, or shortened to roughly lax vowel length. Tense vowels, then, have more variable length than lax vowels. Tense vowels can be unchecked; that is, they can occur at the end of a word.
ReplyDeletelax vowels Only tense vowels can occur in a word-final stressed open syllable in English.
ReplyDeleteMnemonics:
"We may view Ma Shaw's fur coat." (All tense vowels)
"Big Ben had cooked the butter." (all lax vowels.
..so that the pharynx is expanded. Tense and lax are less clearly defined terms. Tense vowels are articulated with greater muscular effort, slightly higher tongue positions, and longer durations than lax vowels.
ReplyDelete