Vowel Tenseness
In most Germanic languages, lax vowels can occur only in closed syllables. Therefore, these vowels are also called 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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“Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.”
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