That's why they're called "front" vowels. With these words, your tongue depresses and folds back a bit. So "O", "A" and "U" are called "back" of the throat vowels. OK, here's the weird part.

[æææææɐɐɐɐɑɑɑɑ] Your tongue stays low but it moves further back in your mouth. [i] and [æ] are front vowels and [ɑ] is a back vowel. We now have two features: how high your tongue ...

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"Front vowel" sounds such as those in bee or bay, are made with the tongue forward, while the tongue is to the rear of the mouth with "back vowel" sounds such as but or boot. "Previous work has ...

In one marketing study, for example, Richard Klink at Loyola University Maryland created pairs of made-up product brand names that were identical except for having front vowels or back vowels and ...

She found that men labelled with names including “front vowels,” such as the “aaa” sound in Matt were rated as more attractive by website viewers than photos labelled with “back vowel” ...

The names of these non-existent cities were crafted so that one, Fleen, contained a front vowel and the other, Floon, contained a back vowel. Participants were randomly asked to estimate the ...

In addition, "front" vowels, like [i] again, are seen as smaller than "back" vowels, like [u], which has the same height. As Mr Pinker put it, mice are teeny and squeak, elephants are humongous ...

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