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Noun
1. fortisLinguistics, Antonym: 軟音
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2. TensenessIn phonology, tenseness is a particular vowel quality that is phonemically contrastive in many languages, including English. It has also occasionally been used to describe contrasts in consonants. Unlike most distinctive features, the feature [tense tense] can be interpreted only relatively, that is, in a language like English that contrasts [i i] (e.g. beat) and [ɪ ɪ] (e.g. bit), the former can be described as a tense vowel while the latter is a lax vowel.
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