Although there is also a length contrast, vowels are often analyzed according to a tenseness contrast, with long being the tense vowels and short their lax counterparts.
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The letter # represents and the tense vowel obtained from the combinations ? # , ? # , + # and # .
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In most Germanic languages, checked vowels, as opposed to the tense vowels that are called " free vowels " because they can occur even in open syllables.
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Nonetheless, phoneticians do not refer to ATR vowels as " tense vowels " since the word " tense " already has several meanings in European phonetics.
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However, even if not considered part of the phonemic opposition, the long / tense vowels are still realised as " phonetically " longer than their short counterparts.
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A number of class 3b strong verbs have replaced their original past tense vowel with the "-ie-" of class 7, creating a " hybrid " class.
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Lax vowels are indicated by italic type, unless the tense vowel is a rotated letter ( back, unrounded vowels ), in which case it is turned right-side up.
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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.
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The primary characteristic of the Minjiang dialect is that the stop consonants for checked-tone syllables in Middle Chinese have developed into tense vowels to create a phonemic contrast, and in several cities and counties the tense vowels retain a following glottal stop.
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The primary characteristic of the Minjiang dialect is that the stop consonants for checked-tone syllables in Middle Chinese have developed into tense vowels to create a phonemic contrast, and in several cities and counties the tense vowels retain a following glottal stop.
