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S vs Fronting - What's the difference?

s | fronting |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun 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.

As a verb fronting is

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s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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)