fronting

Examples

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• The child demonstrated fronting by saying "tat" instead of "cat" when speaking.

• Goose and goat can both be very fronted and the short E vowel, the KIT vowel is being split in two.

• The lot vowel is going to be very open fronted, no lip rounding in a New York accent.

• The positional asymmetry found for the fronting of velars does not appear to hold for palatals.

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• However, if scored according to the criteria suggested in the current article, it would quickly become apparent that velar fronting in word-initial position would likely be an appropriate target for this child.

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• For a child who fronts velars only in word-initial position, the error pattern of velar fronting may go unrecognized.

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• For example, the initial phoneme in the word "cat" provides an opportunity for the error pattern of velar fronting in word-initial position, but the initial phoneme in the word "clown" does not.

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• Thus, a child who pronounces key as di is said to apply the phonological process of velar fronting to convert /ki/ to /ti/ and then the process of prevocalic voicing to convert /ti/ to di.

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• In some dialects, the fronting of vowels makes words sound quite different from their standard pronunciations.

• Linguists study the fronting of vowels to understand regional accents better.

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology