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Fronting (sound change)

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or pronounced farther to the front of the vocal tract than some reference point. The opposite situation, in which a sound becomes pronounced farther to the back of the vocal tract, is called
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left room in the low-front area of the vowel space for to expand. Thus, words like
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Fronting can also take place as part of a chain shift. For example, in the
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refers to a range of sound changes triggered by high or high-front vowels.
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is fronted to or , a sound change that is sometimes called
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University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics
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Index

Fronting (phonology)
Sound change
alternation
Metathesis
Quantitative metathesis
Lenition
Consonant gradation
Consonant voicing and devoicing
Assibilation
Spirantization
L-vocalization
Debuccalization
Fortition
Epenthesis
Prothesis
Paragoge
Unpacking
Vowel breaking
Elision
Apheresis
Syncope
Apocope
Haplology
Cluster reduction
Transphonologization
Compensatory lengthening
Nasalization
Tonogenesis
Floating tone
Assimilation

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