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Tongue Musculature and the Feature of Tension in English Vowels

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Published/Copyright: November 13, 2009
Phonetica
From the journal Phonetica Volume 32 Issue 1

Abstract

Electromyographic techniques were employed to discover which, if any, intrinsic and extrinsic tongue muscles displayed a difference in overall amount of activity corresponding to the traditional tense-lax distinction between members of the English vowel pairs /i - Ị/, /e - ε/, and /u - û/. Although some muscles revealed a consistent difference, most did not. Even for those muscles where a tense-lax difference was found, the data do not support the notion that tension was a necessary or sufficient differentia of production.

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Published Online: 2009-11-13
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© 1975 S. Karger AG, Basel

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https://doi.org/10.1159/000259686

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Paper
  2. Etude statistique de la fréquence laryngienne
  3. Variation in Dialect Proficiency and Restructuring
  4. Spezifische Dauer und spezifische Tonhöhe der Vokale
  5. Tongue Musculature and the Feature of Tension in English Vowels
  6. Further Section
  7. Libri
  8. Varia
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