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| has gloss | eng: In phonology, tenseness is a particular vowel quality that is phonemically contrastive in many languages, including English. It has also occasionally been used to describe contrasts in consonants. Unlike most distinctive features, the feature [tense] can be interpreted only relatively, that is, in a language like English that contrasts (e.g. beat) and (e.g. bit), the former can be described as a tense vowel while the latter is a lax vowel. Another example is Vietnamese, where the letters ă and â represent lax vowels, and the letters a and ơ the corresponding tense vowels. Some languages like Spanish are often considered as having only tense vowels, but since the quality of tenseness is not a phonemic feature in this language, it cannot be applied to describe its vowels in any meaningful way. |
| lexicalization | eng: tenseness |
| instance of | (noun) a speech sound that is not a vowel consonant |
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| Breton | |
| has gloss | bre: Er yezhoniezh e vez implijet an termen stignadur (saoz.: ) war dachenn ar fonetik hag ar fonologiezh evit komz eus ur perzh implijet evit enebiañ sonennoù vogalennek dreist-holl hag ivez a-wezhoù kensonnel e meur a yezhoù, en o zouez ar vietnameg, da skouer: |
| lexicalization | bre: stignadur |
| French | |
| has gloss | fra: En phonétique articulatoire, la tension est un trait phonétique que lanalyse traditionnelle lie au degré de tonus musculaire des organes phonateurs, et qui peut affecter la production des voyelles, des consonnes ou la syllabe entière. Elle accompagne fréquemment dautres traits phonétiques comme la quantité vocalique, la quantité consonantique ou le voisement. |
| lexicalization | fra: Tension |
| Japanese | |
| has gloss | jpn: 硬音（こうおん）は、音声学において調音器官の筋肉の緊張（テンス）をともなう音のことをいう。これに対する弛緩（ラックス）した音は軟音（なんおん）という。どのような器官であるかは言語によって異なっている。 |
| lexicalization | jpn: 硬音 |
| Korean | |
| has gloss | kor: 언어학에서 긴장도란 많은 언어에서 음운의 대비를 이루는 성질의 하나이다. 긴장도가 높은 쪽을 긴장음(tense sound), 낮은 쪽으로 이완음(lax sound)이라 한다. 한국어에서는 경음인 /ㄸ/가 연음 /ㄷ/에 대응되는 긴장음이며, 영어의 경우 장모음 가 단모음 에 대비되는 긴장음이다. 닿소리의 경우 혀 등의 근육의 긴장을 수반하는 발음을 긴장음이라 하나 홀소리의 경우 그렇지 않은 경우도 있다. |
| lexicalization | kor: 긴장도 |
| Portuguese | |
| has gloss | por: A tensão, em fonética articulatória, é uma característica fonética que a análise tradicional relaciona com o tónus muscular dos órgãos da fala, e que pode afectar a produção das vogais, das consoantes ou de um sílaba completa. Acompanha frequentemente outras características fonéticas como a quantidade vocálica, a quantidade consonantal ou a vocalização. |
| lexicalization | por: tensão |
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