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Fronting (other)
Fronting may refer to: * Fronting (sound change), pronunciation of a sound further forward in the mouth * Acting as the most prominent member of a group, as in the case of a lead singer * Fronting, in the slang of Multiplicity (subculture), when one personality of a multiple/plural system (person with dissociative identity disorder or other condition associated with multiple personalities) controls the body * Movement of a grammatical component to the start of a clause; see: **wh-fronting, ''wh''-fronting ** * Domain fronting, a censorship circumvention technique * Fronting, a form of insurance fraud#Examples, insurance fraud See also *"Frontin'", a 2003 song by Pharrell Williams *Front (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fronting (sound Change)
In phonology, fronting is a sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes fronted, advanced or pronounced further to the front of the vocal tract than some reference point. The opposite situation, in which a sound becomes pronounced further to the back of the vocal tract, is called backing or retraction. Fronting may be triggered by a nearby sound, in which case it is a form of assimilation, or may occur on its own. Examples Assimilation In i-mutation and Germanic umlaut, a back vowel is fronted under the influence of or in a following syllable. This is assimilation. Vowel shifts In the Attic and Ionic dialects of Ancient Greek, Proto-Greek close back were fronted to . This change occurred in all cases and was not triggered by a nearby front consonant or vowel. Similarly in French and Occitan, this sound change also occurred. In Old English and Old Frisian Old Frisian was a West Germanic language spoken between the late 13th century and the end of 16th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lead Singer
The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of the ensemble as the dominant sound. In vocal group performances, notably in soul and gospel music, and early rock and roll, the lead singer takes the main vocal melody, with a chorus or harmony vocals provided by other band members as backing vocalists. Lead vocalists typically incorporate some movement or gestures into their performance, and some may participate in dance routines during the show, particularly in pop music. Some lead vocalists also play an instrument during the show, either in an accompaniment role (such as strumming a guitar part), or playing a lead instrument/instrumental solo role when they are not singing (as in the case of lead singer-guitar virtuoso Jimi Hendrix). The lead singer also typically guides the vocal ensem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multiplicity (subculture)
Multiplicity, also called plurality or polypsychism, is an online subculture of people identifying as having or using multiple personalities, or as having multiple people occupying one mind and body. Multiplicity communities mostly exist online through social media platforms. Definition The coinage ''multiplicity'' describes people displaying or experiencing multiple personalities, selves, or identities in one mind and body, each with their own thoughts, emotional reactions, preferences, behavior, memory and sense of self. It commonly covers: * Psychological conditions like dissociative identity disorder. * Tulpas. * Walk-ins. * Experiences and/or displays of multiple identities due to unspecified causes. Origins and related practices Resources dedicated to multiplicity started to appear early in the internet's history. According to a member of the community interviewed by ''Vice Magazine,'' the multiplicity subculture and related vocabulary originated in mailing list ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wh-fronting
In linguistics, wh-movement (also known as wh-fronting, wh-extraction, or wh-raising) is the formation of syntactic dependencies involving interrogative words. An example in English is the dependency formed between ''what'' and the object position of ''doing'' in "What are you doing?". Interrogative forms are sometimes known within English linguistics as ''interrogative word, wh-words'', such as ''what, when, where, who'', and ''why'', but also include other interrogative words, such as ''how''. This dependency has been used as a diagnostic tool in syntactic studies as it can be observed to interact with other grammatical constraints. In languages with wh-syntactic movement, movement, sentences or clauses with a wh-word show a non-canonical word order that places the wh-word (or phrase containing the wh-word) at or near the front of the sentence or clause ("''Whom'' are you thinking about?") instead of the canonical position later in the sentence ("I am thinking about ''you''"). Lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domain Fronting
Domain fronting is a technique for Internet censorship circumvention that uses different domain names in different communication layers of an HTTPS connection to discreetly connect to a different target domain than that which is discernable to third parties monitoring the requests and connections. Due to quirks in security certificates, the redirect systems of the content delivery networks (CDNs) used as 'domain fronts', and the protection provided by HTTPS, censors are typically unable to differentiate circumvention ("domain-fronted") traffic from overt non-fronted traffic for any given domain name. As such they are forced to either allow all traffic to the domain front—including circumvention traffic—or block the domain front entirely, which may result in expensive collateral damage and has been likened to "blocking the rest of the Internet". Domain fronting is achieved by a mismatch of the HTTP Host header and the TLS SNI extension. The standard that defines the SNI ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Insurance Fraud
Insurance fraud is any intentional act committed to deceive or mislead an insurance company during the application or claims process, or the wrongful denial of a legitimate claim by an insurance company. It occurs when a claimant knowingly attempts to obtain a benefit or advantage they are not entitled to receive, or when an insurer knowingly denies a benefit or advantage that is due to the insured. According to the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, the most common schemes include premium diversion, fee churning, asset diversion, and workers compensation fraud. False insurance claims are insurance claims filed with the fraudulent intention towards an insurance provider. Fraudulent claims account for a significant portion of all claims received by insurers, and cost billions of dollars annually. Insurance fraud poses a significant problem, and governments and other organizations try to deter such activity. Studies suggest that the greatest total dollar amount of frau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frontin'
"Frontin'" is the debut single by American musician Pharrell Williams featuring American rapper Jay-Z. It was written by the artists alongside Chad Hugo, who produced it with Williams as the Neptunes. At the time of its release, Williams insisted the single was a one-off, and that he was purely a producer and not an artist in his own right. However, he released his own solo studio album, '' In My Mind'', in 2006. The song's title refers to putting up a facade (or false 'front'), typically to impress peers. The drum beat was heavily influenced by the Beatles' 1965 track "In My Life", and the bass during the bridge by Stevie Wonder. Pharrell had initially written the song for Prince. It was the 34th best-selling song of 2003 in the U.S., according to ''Billboard'' magazine. It was also featured on the Neptunes' 2003 compilation album '' The Neptunes Present... Clones'', which debuted at number one on the ''Billboard'' 200 in August 2003. In 2024, the song appeared on Williams' s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
