front vowel

collocation in English

meaningsoffrontandvowel

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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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(Definition offrontandvowelfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffront vowel

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Many readers will no doubt wonder if */x/ can also precede afrontvowel.
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However, it occurs only when the righthand environment is a highfrontvowel, an approximant, or a fricative.
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Thefrontvowelchanges, however, do appear to be making some noise, so to speak.
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A followingfrontvowelis of course the most common site for palatalisation and so this makes phonological sense.
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The lowfrontvowelis also phonetically distinct in these two varieties.
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That is, as individuals they are not usually any more conservative regarding the stigmatized diphthong variants than they are regarding the non-stigmatizedfrontvowelvariants.
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This may suggest a somewhat better identification of velar stops infrontvowelcontexts.
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The agentive suffix consists phonologically of a high advancedfrontvowel.
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And the combination of a preceding and followingfrontvowelis the worst context overall for place identification.
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For these reasons, the terms "innovative" and "conservative" are used both forfrontvoweland diphthong variants.
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Second, the input /aelig:/ is afrontvowel.
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Their variant is afrontvowel0a0.
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