lax vowel
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Etymology
Noun
lax vowel (plural lax vowels)
- (phonetics) A vowel produced with relatively little constriction of the vocal tract.
- 2001, Michael Dobrovolsky, “Phonetics: The Sounds of Language”, in William O'Grady, John Archibald, Mark Aronoff, Janie Rees-Miller, editors, Contemporary Linguistics, →ISBN, page 35:
- Some vowels in English are made with roughly the same tongue position as the tense vowels, but with less constricted articulation; they are called lax vowels.
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