Examples of 'front vowel' in a sentence

Meaning of "front vowel"

front vowel ~ a linguistic term referring to a vowel sound pronounced with the highest point of the tongue towards the front of the mouth. For example, 'The /i/ sound in 'beet' is a front vowel.'
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  • Any vowel sound produced in the front of the mouth. Examples: "a" in “man” and "e" in “gel”

How to use "front vowel" in a sentence

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front vowel
Close unrounded front vowel.
This short front vowel gliding phenomenon is popularly recognized as the " Southern drawl.
Open rounded front vowel.
Following this approach, the vowel / i / is described as a high, front vowel.
Likewise, / E / could have been any front vowel and / N / any nasal consonant.
The effect is most noticeable with the high front vowel.
Template, Front vowel.
In modern Hungarian this is mainly found as a front vowel.
Close rounded front vowel.
A number of dialects of English also have such a mid front vowel.
Open unrounded front vowel.
The alveolar stop is pronounced as an affricate before the high front vowel / i /.
Among the consonants, treatment of the letter c followed by a front vowel was an obvious distinction.
In the other dialects, the proto-Eskimo e merged with the closed front vowel i.
This velar fricative changed back into * š before a front vowel or the palatal approximant * y.

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The lateral / i / may be velarized, unless it 's followed by a front vowel.
Close-mid rounded front vowel.
In Old Church Slavonic, it represented a short ( or " reduced " ) front vowel.
Open-mid rounded front vowel.
In the modern language, it has merged into the front vowel /a/.
By contrast it is always present to mark the front vowel in Wade-Giles.
Close-mid unrounded front vowel.
Open-mid unrounded front vowel.

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Examples of using Vowel
Not a single vowel in his entire name
Vowel elision occurred to prevent vowel clusters
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