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How to recognize Tense and Lax vowels

How to recognize  Tense and Lax Vowels 


  • The English language has five vowels: a, e, i, o and u. These vowels have the ability to represent a variety of sounds. Traditional phonetics classifies these vowels into types known as lax and tense.

  • The key to difference the lax and tense vowels is that tense vowels are longer than the lax vowels

  • The difference between lax and tense vowels cannot be well defined as a single characteristic, as this distinction is mainly based on phonotactics.Therefore, the best way to remember the difference between lax and tense vowels is to learn which vowels can be called tense and lax

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