front vowel
- noun
- /frʌnt vaʊəl/
- Specialized
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vocal frontal
- In addition to the acoustic cues, visual cues also influence the perception of high-front vowels.
- Dutch front vowels
- high-front vowels
Examples
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In the present study, we investigated the audiovisual perception of the Dutch high- and mid-high-front vowels i, y, e, Y, which are represented as shaded circles in Figure 1.
Academic text (2012) -
The choices were presented on the screen as buttons labeled 'eh' or 'ae' for the front vowel block and 'uh' or 'u' for the back pair block.
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OK, now I've kind of color-coded the vowels here you can see there are some front vowels that are red and some back vowels that are blue.
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On the other hand, we note that our etymon SYRINGA does in fact have the requisite front vowel for such a process to have taken place.
Academic text (1993) -
A. Alonso, for example, notes that 18 sometimes palatalizes before non-front vowels and sometimes fails to palatalize before front vowels.
Academic text (1993) -
Summary of the features of the Dutch front vowels used as stimuli, with an articulation example taken from the experimental stimuli (the section from around the mouth was cut from a still frame from the corresponding stimuli).
Academic text (2012) -
The objective of this study was to investigate whether the influence of visual cues on vowel perception extends to incongruent vowels, in a manner similar to the McGurk effect observed with consonants. Method: Identification of Dutch front vowels.
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The front vowel in the word 'beet' is pronounced with the tongue positioned towards the front of the mouth.
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In the sentence 'The cat sat on the mat,' the 'a' in 'cat' is a front vowel sound.
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When learning English, it's important to recognize the front vowels like 'e' in 'gel' and 'i' in 'pin'.
How Front
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'front' (forward) + 'vowel' (speech sound) yields a vowel produced toward the front of the mouth. Although technical, the concept follows transparent descriptive logic found across languages (e.g. Spanish 'vocal anterior'), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Front vowel comes from a simple picture: the vowel sound is made with the tongue near the front of the mouth, so a 'front vowel' means a vowel sound made with the tongue forward, as in the first sound of 'man'.
