The length of a vowel is affected by many factors. However, if all other factors including the height of a vowel remain the same, a lax vowel is shorter than a tense vowel. The muscles of the vocal apparatus are relatively loose when articulating lax vowels.
In addition, lax vowels mostly occur in one syllable words that end in consonants
/I/ (as i in bit)
/e/ (as e in bet)
/æ/ (as a in bat)
/U/ (as u in put)
/ô/ (as au in caught)
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