Tense and Lax vowel duration Introduction
Your introduction should inform the reader as to what you are investigating (e.g., durational differences between tense and lax vowels of American English). Give details of what is already known about the topic (e.g., Have durational differences between tense and lax vowels been previously observed? What other differences between tense and lax vowels exist, to our knowledge? What are your hypotheses, based on prior research that has been done (as reported in your sources)?