frontest
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frontest
- (phonetics) superlative form of front: most front
- 2005, Martin J. Ball, Nicole Müller, Phonetics for communication disorders, page 56:
- He set up two anchor points for his system using articulatory criteria: cardinal vowel 1 was the highest, frontest vowel that one could make without the sound becoming a consonant, and cardinal vowel 5 was the lowest, backest vowel one could produce without pulling the tongue back into the pharynx.