front vowel

All the front vowels except those in bit, bet moved up.

Bad, bag, cab and cash take a low, long front vowel.

There are also conditional raising processes of open front vowels.

However, a few languages, such as Scandinavian, have compressed front vowels.

The differences occurred mostly in the front vowels, and particularly the diphthongs.

Before front vowels, palatalized varieties of other consonants are also found.

The front vowels are so close that it is sometimes difficult for a non-native speaker to distinguish them.

In certain environments s and sh are hard to distinguish (as before high front vowels).

A number of dialects of English also have such a mid front vowel.

Consonants also become palatalized before and after front vowels.

The grapheme k was also used more commonly than in the modern alphabet, particularly before front vowels.

This resulted in new sequences of velars followed by front vowels, where they did not occur before.

In technical terms, this listing goes from front vowels to back vowels.

A front vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

Harmonizing suffixes added to such words contain front vowels.

The velar consonants become palatals and when preceded by front vowels.

The palatalization of labials before front vowels takes specific forms:

Danish has not undergone these changes in the back vowels, but instead the front vowels have been affected.

Similarly, languages use different strategies to indicate a hard pronunciation before front vowels:

Remember that front vowels underwent the following pan-Romance changes:

However, a word containing only e and/or i would normally receive suffixes with front vowels.

Not all dialects distinguish the three unrounded mid front vowels.

A slight non-distinctive palatalization was probably present on all consonants that occurred before front vowels.

The affricates ts and dz developed from velars before front vowels.

Generally, back vowels were fronted, and front vowels were raised.