Fronting

To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction.

To face, be opposite to.

To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.

To adorn the front of; to put on the front.

A process whereby a vowel or a consonant is pronounced farther to the front of the vocal tract than some reference point.

A phonological relationship where a front vowel is found in place of a relative back vowel in an inflected form of a word.

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.

The movement of a word of phrase to nearer the beginning of a sentence or clause than it would usually appear, often for emphasis. May also occur as part of the standard syntax of particular constructions (e.g. wh-fronting).