0 present participle of tense
1 If you or your muscles tense, your muscles become stiff and tight because you are frightened or nervous, or are preparing yourself to do something:
Fluoride has an effect on the latter, which has the immense and amazing capacity to keep tensing and flexing.
Or even if one accepts his data, they raise the question of why such basic tensing processes should show such strong individual differences among normal subjects.
Rather, they are systematically related to aspects of his generally superior learning and use of regular past tensing, and very likely to aspects of his quantitatively superior competence.
Our account presupposes that once the derivational relationship was established, there could exist pairs where there is no vowel tensing since the underlying vowel in both words would be tense.
Structures above the glottis, such as the ventricular or false vocal folds, may also be involved, including a general tensing of the laryngeal (and related) musculature.
The facial contortions of a person in pain would seem to contribute little to the escape or suppressive functions of body contortions and tensing elsewhere in the body.
For example, anger often motivates the instantaneous production of an angry face or the tensing of arm and leg muscles.
This paper, however, will limit the discussion to the postlexical application of the tensing rule between phonological words, and after a lenis obstruent.
