front vowel

collocation in English

meanings of frontand vowel

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front
adjective[before noun]
uk /frʌnt/ us /frʌnt/
in or at the front ...
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vowel
noun[C]
uk /vaʊəl/ us /vaʊəl/
a speech sound produced by humans when the breath flows out through the mouth without being blocked by the teeth, tongue, ...
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Examples of front vowel

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Many readers will no doubt wonder if */x/ can also precede a frontvowel.
However, it occurs only when the righthand environment is a high frontvowel, an approximant, or a fricative.
The frontvowel changes, however, do appear to be making some noise, so to speak.
A following frontvowel is of course the most common site for palatalisation and so this makes phonological sense.
The low frontvowel is also phonetically distinct in these two varieties.
That is, as individuals they are not usually any more conservative regarding the stigmatized diphthong variants than they are regarding the non-stigmatized frontvowel variants.
This may suggest a somewhat better identification of velar stops in frontvowel contexts.
The agentive suffix consists phonologically of a high advanced frontvowel.
And the combination of a preceding and following frontvowel is the worst context overall for place identification.
For these reasons, the terms "innovative" and "conservative" are used both for frontvowel and diphthong variants.
Second, the input /aelig:/ is a frontvowel.
Their variant is a frontvowel 0a0.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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