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Tensing
Tensing may refer to: *Tenseness In phonology, tenseness or tensing is, most broadly, the pronunciation of a sound with greater muscular effort or constriction than is typical. More specifically, tenseness is the pronunciation of a vowel with less centralization (i.e. either mo ... (or tensing), a concept in the linguistic fields of phonetics and phonology * Ten Sing, a Christian youth program See also * Tenzing (name), a Nepalese name {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenseness
In phonology, tenseness or tensing is, most broadly, the pronunciation of a sound with greater muscular effort or constriction than is typical. More specifically, tenseness is the pronunciation of a vowel with less centralization (i.e. either more fronting or more backing), longer duration, and narrower mouth width (with the tongue being perhaps more raised) compared with another vowel. The opposite quality to tenseness is known as laxness or laxing: the pronunciation of a vowel with relatively more centralization, shorter duration, and more widening (perhaps even lowering). Contrasts between two vowels on the basis of tenseness, and even phonemic contrasts, are common in many languages, including English. For example, in most English dialects, ''beet'' and ''bit'' are contrasted by the vowel sound being tense in the first word but not the second; i.e., (as in ''beet'') is the tense counterpart to the lax (as in ''bit''); the same is true of (as in ''kook'') versus (as in '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ten Sing
Ten Sing is a Christian youth program within YWCA and YMCA, engaging teenagers in creative performing arts. Activities, goals and values Ten Sing work is based on a common agreement between member countries of the European Ten Sing Group – The Ten Sing Idea: Abstract Ten Sing is a YMCA international Youth programme and YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association), which focuses on getting young people to express themselves by using their own culture through creative performing arts. The main aims The underlying objectives are leadership training, democracy training and personal and social development of body, mind and spirit. Ten Sing invites young people to a creative work process that uses different cultural expressions in a Christian context. The five C's The five C's "Culture, Creativity, Care, Competence and Christ" are equally important parts of the Ten Sing idea. By young people, for young people. Young people know best what young people think, dream of, feel a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |