Tense in Phonetics (definition)

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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.

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