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Phonological history of English and Tenseness

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Difference between Phonological history of English and Tenseness

Phonological history of English vs. Tenseness

The phonological history of English describes the changing phonology of the English language over time, starting from its roots in proto-Germanic to diverse changes in different dialects of modern English. In phonology, tenseness or tensing is, most broadly, the pronunciation of a sound with greater muscular effort or constriction than is typical.

Similarities between Phonological history of English and Tenseness

Phonological history of English and Tenseness have 11 things in common (in Unionpedia): Consonant, Dutch language, English language, Gemination, German language, Germanic languages, Received Pronunciation, Scottish English, Syllable, Trisyllabic laxing, Vowel.

Consonant

In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract.

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Dutch language

The Dutch language is a West Germanic language, spoken by around 23 million people as a first language (including the population of the Netherlands where it is the official language, and about sixty percent of Belgium where it is one of the three official languages) and by another 5 million as a second language.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Gemination

Gemination, or consonant elongation, is the pronouncing in phonetics of a spoken consonant for an audibly longer period of time than that of a short consonant.

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German language

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.

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Germanic languages

The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania, and Southern Africa.

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Received Pronunciation

Received Pronunciation (RP) is an accent of Standard English in the United Kingdom and is defined in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary as "the standard accent of English as spoken in the south of England", although it can be heard from native speakers throughout England and Wales.

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Scottish English

Scottish English refers to the varieties of English spoken in Scotland.

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Syllable

A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds.

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Trisyllabic laxing

Trisyllabic laxing, or trisyllabic shortening, is any of three processes in English in which tense vowels (long vowels or diphthongs) become lax (short monophthongs) if they are followed by two syllables, the first of which syllable is unstressed.

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Vowel

A vowel is one of the two principal classes of speech sound, the other being a consonant.

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Phonological history of English and Tenseness Comparison

Phonological history of English has 139 relations, while Tenseness has 35. As they have in common 11, the Jaccard index is 6.32% = 11 / (139 + 35).

References

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