front vowel

Tongue-advanced speech sound

A front vowel is a vowel sound produced with the tongue positioned toward the front of the mouth.

In English, the vowels in beat, bit, bait, and bet are front vowels.

The term belongs to phonetics, where vowels are classified by tongue position—front, central, or back.

articulation

tongue

Oral muscle for taste

tense · lax · spread · unrounded · tenseness · laxness · oral cavity · anterior · raised · formant

phonetics

monophthong

Steady, ungliding vowel sound

  • diphthongComplex vowel gliding between positions
  • phonemeMinimal distinctive sound unit
  • allophoneNon-distinctive sound variation

IPA · umlaut · phonology · spectrogram · F1 · acoustic · articulation

perception

bright

Emitting or reflecting light

  • acuteIntensely severe or perceptive
  • sharpFine-edged, or astute
  • thinSmall in diameter

clear · light · piercing · crisp · high-pitched · resonant · forward · focused · concentrated · timbre

examples

beet

Dark red root vegetable

  • bitSmall amount or portion
  • baitLure for prey
  • betRisked stake on outcome

bat · fleece · kit · face · dress · trap · see · sit · say · set

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front, vowel, forefront, fronted, fronting, frontally, frontend

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