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Fronting vs Postponement - What's the difference?

fronting | postponement |

As nouns the difference between fronting and postponement

is that fronting is (phonetics|phonology) a process whereby a vowel or a consonant is pronounced farther to the front of the vocal tract than some reference point while postponement is a delay, as a formal delay in a proceeding.

As a verb fronting

is .

fronting

English

Noun

  • (phonetics, phonology) A process whereby a vowel or a consonant is pronounced farther to the front of the vocal tract than some reference point.
  • (phonology) A phonological relationship where a front vowel is found in place of a relative back vowel in an inflected form of a word.
  • (linguistics) An analogous relationship between the vowel sounds in a dialect of a language relative to the language standard or an earlier form of the language.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • postponement

    English

    Noun

    (postponements)
  • A delay, as a formal delay in a proceeding.
  • :The lawyer asked for a postponement in the trial so he could spend more time preparing before it began.