Hadar Shemesh breaks down the vowel difference between tense and lax sounds in English. The tense vowel is longer and higher in your mouth. Minimal pairs like kid/keed and fit/feet show how the small shift changes the word entirely.
We have the tense e and lax I. Tense e is usually represented with just like a small I. And then this is the lax e. And the two dots is because it's a longer vowel generally. So here it's also like an exaggeration of the E sound. E. See, we feel that's the tense E, and the lax I is just a relaxed version of it. And it's somewhere between E and E. E, E. Kid, fit, finish, simple, kick, fill, feel. Hence E. Fill, feel, fill, reach. So it's longer, the tongue is higher, rich.
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