Tense in Phonetics (definition)

A tense sound is made with greater effort from the muscles than other sounds. One example would be vowels that are produced by a narrow posture of the tongue. This is often caused by Advanced Tongue Root

See Also

• Advanced Tongue Root (definition)
• Sounds of Scottish Gaelic

External Links

• http://akerbeltz.org/index.php?title=Vowels_before_rr_ll_nn

The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenseness

References

• Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.