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Habib, Muhammad Asad, and Arshad Ali Khan. "Vowel Epenthesis in Loanword Integration: A Study of English Consonant Cluster at Onset." International Journal of English Linguistics 9, no. 4 (July 12, 2019): 332. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v9n4p332.

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This study examines the process of vowel epenthesis used by the Punjabi speakers to integrate the English consonant cluster at onset position of the syllable. English and Punjabi are two different phonological system where English allows consonant cluster and complex consonants at onset while Punjabi only allows complex consonants. Hence for the integration of syllables with consonant cluster, Punjabi speakers have to insert a vowel to make the consonant configuration according to Punjabi phonotactics. The data for this study are collected from recordings of focus group discussions, interviews and video clips. The data are analyzed by using CV phonology and Distinct Feature theory. The results suggest that Punjabi speakers insert vowels to modify the English consonant clusters according to Punjabi phonological environment. Thus, they add another vowel node and resyllabify the consonant clusters. The mid central /ə/ vowel is the default epenthetic vowel while in some cases /e/ is also used before the consonant clusters.
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Másdóttir, Thora, Sharynne McLeod, and Kathryn Crowe. "Icelandic Children's Acquisition of Consonants and Consonant Clusters." Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 64, no. 5 (May 11, 2021): 1490–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2021_jslhr-20-00463.

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Purpose This study investigated Icelandic-speaking children's acquisition of singleton consonants and consonant clusters. Method Participants were 437 typically developing children aged 2;6–7;11 (years;months) acquiring Icelandic as their first language. Single-word speech samples of the 47 single consonants and 45 consonant clusters were collected using Málhljóðapróf ÞM (ÞM's Test of Speech Sound Disorders). Results Percentage of consonants correct for children aged 2;6–2;11 was 73.12 ( SD = 13.33) and increased to 98.55 ( SD = 3.24) for children aged 7;0–7;11. Overall, singleton consonants were more likely to be accurate than consonant clusters. The earliest consonants to be acquired were /m, n, p, t, j, h/ in word-initial position and /f, l/ within words. The last consonants to be acquired were /x, r, r̥, s, θ, n̥/, and consonant clusters in word-initial /sv-, stl-, str-, skr-, θr-/, within-word /-ðr-, -tl-/, and word-final /-kl̥, -xt/ contexts. Within-word phonemes were more often accurate than those in word-initial position, with word-final position the least accurate. Accuracy of production was significantly related to increasing age, but not sex. Conclusions This is the first comprehensive study of consonants and consonant cluster acquisition by typically developing Icelandic-speaking children. The findings align with trends for other Germanic languages; however, there are notable language-specific differences of clinical importance.
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Phoon, Hooi San, Margaret Maclagan, and Anna Christina Abdullah. "Acquisition of Consonant Clusters and Acceptable Variants in Chinese-Influenced Malaysian English-Speaking Children." American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 24, no. 3 (August 2015): 517–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2015_ajslp-14-0037.

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Purpose This study investigated consonant cluster acquisition in Chinese-influenced Malaysian English (ChME)-speaking children. Method This cross-sectional study involved 262 typically developing ChME-speaking children (138 girls, 124 boys) ages 3 to 7 years old. A single-word picture-naming task, which contained 66 words and targeted 32 syllable-initial (SI) and 14 syllable-final (SF) consonant clusters, was administered. Results Older children produced more correct productions than younger children, and there was no sex effect for consonant cluster production. SF consonant clusters were more accurate than SI consonant clusters among the younger children. The overall sequence of SI consonant cluster accuracy based on cluster categories from most to least accurate was /s/ + C, C + /w/, C + /j/, C + /l/, and C + /r/, whereas for SF consonant clusters, the order was C + stop, C + /s/, nasal + C, and /l/ + C. Two-element clusters consistently had higher accuracy in comparison to three-element clusters across the age groups. The overall consonant cluster accuracy of the present study showed similar patterns to those found in previous studies of Standard English. Conclusion The findings of the study will be useful in the assessment of consonant cluster production of ChME-speaking children.
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Jubran AL-Mamri, Muhammed. "Patterns of Consonant Clusters in Word Initial, Medial, and Final Positions in Yemeni Arabic." JL3T ( Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Language Teaching) 7, no. 1 (July 31, 2021): 41–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.32505/jl3t.v7i1.2821.

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Yemeni Arabic (YA) has a significant number of consonant clusters in word initial, medial, and final positions. However, their frequency of usage is not uniform. This study aims to investigate the patterns of consonant clusters in word initial, medial, and final positions in YA and also to find out the most and least frequent clusters in terms of their percentage. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used in data analysis in this study. All the words were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). There are features of consonant clusters in Yemeni Arabic which differ from Modern Standard Arabic and some other Arabic dialects. In Yemeni Arabic, there are 29 consonants and 10 vowels, 5 long and 5 short vowels. The maximum number of onset cluster is three (e.g. /∫tsu:q/ “she will drive” while coda cluster is two (e.g. /satˤħ/ “roof”). Furthermore, the maximum number of medial clusters are also two (e.g. /muχ.lsˤu/ “sincere”. The analysis undertaken will throw light on the frequency and percentages of the occurrences of the consonant clusters on the basis of a word list, which is justified with the help of statistical support.
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Staroverov, Peter, and Darya Kavitskaya. "Tundra Nenets consonant sandhi as coalescence." Linguistic Review 34, no. 2 (October 26, 2017): 331–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2017-0006.

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Abstract Consonant cluster simplification in Tundra Nenets coexists with other consonantal alternations, such as fricative strengthening, lenition of stops, and a variety of NC-effects, which all apply within the same phrasal domain. These processes interact with each other, suggesting an opaque ordering within the same post-lexical domain and thus presenting a challenge not only for inherently parallel theories like classical Optimality Theory, but also for the cyclic derivational approaches such as Stratal OT. We analyze all instances of Tundra Nenets cluster simplification as coalescence and show that a variety of apparently opaque alternations accompanying cluster simplification can be seen as transparent on this account. We also argue that strengthening in consonant clusters is caused by an intermediate stage where coda obstruents lose their place and turn into a glottal stop.
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Riekhakaynen, Elena I. "Realization of intervocalic consonant clusters in frequency words of the Russian language." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature 17, no. 4 (2020): 672–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2020.411.

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The article describes the realization of frequent words with the intervocalic consonant clusters [gd] and [ljk] in the oral speech of three groups of informants: adult native speakers of the Russian language, children aged four to six years and Chinese students learning Russian as a second language (929 realizations of 11 words). The data obtained confirm the hypothesis that the most frequent form of reduction of the analyzed combinations of consonants in Russian speech is the loss of the first consonant. However, the variants with the reduction of the consonant and without it are equally probable in the speech of native Russian speakers for the majority of the analyzed words. In adult native speakers of Russian, there is a tendency to maintain a consonant cluster when the word is at the absolute beginning of the inter-pause interval. Children aged four to six years tend to use only one variant of the consonant clusters in each of the considered words. The main distinctive feature of Russian speech for Chinese students is the large number of sound changes in both intervocalic consonant combinations, as well as the statistically significant prevalence of the full pronunciation over the variant with the loss of the first consonant in the intervocalic cluster for all words with the [ljk] combination. The results can be used to improve existing automatic speech recognition systems, as well as in teaching Russian as a second language.
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S.Gowrie, S. Gowrie, Dr AR Saravanakumar Dr.AR.Saravanakumar, and Dr S. Subbiah Dr.S.Subbiah. "Consonant Cluster Cards- A Tool to Enhance Pronunciation." International Journal of Scientific Research 1, no. 7 (June 1, 2012): 52–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.15373/22778179/dec2012/21.

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Jongstra, Wenckje. "Variable and Stable Clusters: Variation in the Realisation of Consonant Clusters." Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 48, no. 3-4 (December 2003): 265–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008413100000670.

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AbstractThis article reports on between-individual and within-individual variation in consonant cluster reduction strategies (where C1C2 is realised as C( or C2) among young children. The empirical base of the study is a Dutch database with over 9,000 instances of C1 and C2 realisations of 23 word-initial consonant clusters from 45 children aged between two and three years old. The study finds that within-child variation is very limited, whereas between-child variation occurs. It is also shown that there are typological implications; that is, realising C2 in cluster y, implies realising C2 in cluster y, but not vice versa. The data provide support for the position that variation can be accounted for by a finer grained notion of sonority where the sonority distance between the two consonants in a cluster plays a crucial role in establishing prosodic constituency.
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Michaud, Alexis, Guillaume Jacques, and Robert L. Rankin. "Historical transfer of nasality between consonantal onset and vowel." Diachronica 29, no. 2 (June 8, 2012): 201–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.29.2.04mic.

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Comparative data from several language families show that nasality can be transferred between a syllable-initial consonant cluster and the following vowel. The cases reported to date are summarized, and a new analysis is proposed for a set of Sino-Tibetan data. The evolution appears to go in both directions: from the consonantal onset to the following vowel in Tai-Kadai, Austroasiatic, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo (Kwa) and Indo-European (Celtic), and from the vowel to the preceding consonant in Siouan. However, an examination of the conditions on these changes brings out an asymmetry. In most cases, transfers of nasality take place from a consonantal onset to a following vowel; the instances we found of a regular change in the opposite direction all come from languages where there is one of the following restrictions on nasal sounds: (i) nasal consonants are nonphonemic (contextually predictable), or (ii) the opposition between nasal and oral vowels is neutralized after nasal consonants (in favor of nasal vowels).
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McLeod, Sharynne, Jan van Doorn, and Vicki A. Reed. "Normal Acquisition of Consonant Clusters." American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 10, no. 2 (May 2001): 99–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/1058-0360(2001/011).

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Children’s acquisition of adult-like speech production has fascinated speech-language pathologists for over a century, and data gained from associated research have informed every aspect of speech-language pathology practice. The acquisition of the consonant cluster has received little attention during this time, even though the consonant cluster is a common feature of speech, its acquisition is one of the most protracted of all aspects of children’s speech development, and the production of consonant clusters is one of the most common difficulties for children with speech impairment. This paper reviews the literature from the past 70 years to describe children’s normal acquisition of consonant clusters. Articulatory, phonological, linguistic, and acoustic approaches to the development of consonant clusters are reviewed. Data from English are supplemented with examples from other languages. Consideration of the information on consonant cluster development revealed 10 aspects of normal development that can be used in speech-language pathologists’ assessment and analysis of children’s speech.
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Côté, Marie-Hélène 1966. "Consonant cluster phonotactics : a perceptual approach." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8845.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2000.
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This dissertation deals with deletion and epenthesis processes conditioned or constrained by the consonantal environment, essentially consonant deletion, vowel epenthesis and vowel deletion. It is argued that the standard generative approach to these processes, which relies on the syllable and the principle of prosodic licensing, is empirically inadequate, and an alternative sequential approach based on perceptual factors is developed. It is proposed that the likelihood that a consonant deletes, triggers epenthesis or blocks vowel deletion correlates with the quality and quantity of the auditory cues associated to it in a given context. The approach is implemented in Optimality Theory and adopts more specifically the 'Licensing by cue' framework developed by Steriade (1997, 1999). New empirical generalizations concerning deletion and epenthesis processes are uncovered, in particular 1) the fact that stops are more likely than other consonants to delete, trigger epenthesis or block deletion; 2) the role of syntagmatic contrast in deletion and epenthesis processes; 3) the role of the audibility of stop release bursts; 4) the existence of cumulative edge effects, whereby more and more phonotactic combinations are licensed at the edges of prosodic domains as we go up the prosodic hierarchy. These generalizations are elucidated in terms of internal and contextual cues, modulation in the acoustic signal, and cue enhancement processes at edges of prosodic domains. The proposed perceptual approach achieves a substantial simplification and unification of the conceptual apparatus necessary to analyze deletion and epenthesis processes. It subsumes under the more general notion of perceptual salience principles of syllable well-formedness and the Obligatory Contour Principle. Furthermore, it eliminates the need for exceptional mechanisms such as extra syllabicity at domain edges. The analysis is based on the study of deletion and epenthesis processes in a variety of languages. Detailed investigations of schwa in Parisian French, cluster simplification in Quebec French and stop deletion and vowel epenthesis in Ondarroa Basque are provided.
by Marie-Hélène Côté.
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Han, Kyung-Im. "Consonant cluster phenomena: A cross-linguistic comparison." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3239425.

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Yun, Suyeon Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "A theory of consonant cluster perception and vowel epenthesis." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107089.

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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2016.
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This dissertation concerns cluster-dependent asymmetries in vowel epenthesis in loanword adaptation and in non-native cluster perception. The central argument is that auditory factors affect the relative perceptual similarity between consonant clusters and the corresponding epenthesis forms, which in turn plays an important role in determining the site of epenthesis in loanword adaptation. This dissertation provides an extended typology of vowel epenthesis sites in consonant cluster adaptation, considering a variety of clusters both in word-initial and in word-final positions. It will be argued that the cluster-dependent asymmetries in epenthesis sites are best explained by the auditory properties of consonant clusters, such as intensity rise. Specifically, if a cluster involves an intensity rise inside the cluster, epenthesis occurs inside the cluster; if a cluster involves an intensity rise outside the cluster, epenthesis occurs outside the cluster; and if a cluster involves two intensity rises, either internal or external epenthesis can occur. I argue that this is because the epenthetic vowel insertion where there is an intensity rise makes a perceptually less salient change from the original cluster than epenthesis where there is no intensity rise, based on the P-map hypothesis (Steriade, 2008) that an output involving a perceptually smaller change is more optimal. The results of several perception experiments support the hypothesis by showing that not only intensity rise but also C1 voicing have a significant effect on the perceptual similarity between the consonant clusters and the corresponding epenthesis forms. Crucially, it will be shown that the novel generalization about vowel epenthesis sites and the results of perception experiments employing phonetically diverse stimuli can be best explained by the auditory properties, and not by the sonority profile, which has traditionally been used to explain these data.
by Suyeon Yun.
Ph. D.
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Alkhonini, Omar Ahmed. "CODA CONSONANT CLUSTER PATTERNS IN THE ARABIC NAJDI DIALECT." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1368.

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This study examines the coda clusters in Classical Arabic and how Najdi speakers, modern inhabitants of the central area of Saudi Arabia, pronounce them. Fourteen Najdi participants were asked to read a list of thirty-one words that took into account falling, equal, and rising sonority clusters, consisting of obstruents, nasals, liquids, and glides. The instrument contained one, two, and three steps of sonority for each level of sonority (falling and rising) to determine the minimal sonority distance used in Najdi Arabic. Specifically, obstruent + nasal, nasal + liquid, and liquid + glide were included for falling sonority clusters of one step, obstruent + liquid and nasal + glide were used for falling sonority clusters of two steps, and only obstruent + glide for falling sonority clusters of three steps. To test the rising sonority clusters, the elements in the clusters were transposed for each combination; for example, instead of using obstruent + nasal, clusters of nasal + obstruent were considered. However, for equal sonority clusters, only obstruent + obstruent and nasal + nasal were examined. Obstruents were dealt with separately in the instrument at first to see whether they caused any difference in the results. The results showed that the subjects added epenthesis in the rising sonority clusters and equal sonority clusters containing sonorants. However, they did not add epenthesis in the falling sonority clusters or equal sonority clusters containing obstruents. Thus, no matter the distance in sonority between the two segments in the rising sonority clusters (one, two, or three steps), the participants always epenthesized them. In addition, no matter how many sonority steps there were between the two segments in the falling sonority clusters, the participants always produced them without modification. In case of equal sonority, when the two segments of the cluster were sonorants, the participants added epenthesis; however, when the two segments of the cluster were obstruents, the participants produced them without modification.
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Sheppard, Samantha. "NATIVE SPEAKERS' REALIZATIONS OF WORD-INITIAL FRICATIVE + CONSONANT CLUSTERS IN ENGLISH NON-WORDS." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1448.

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This study examines the role of voiceless and voiced fricatives as the first consonant in word-initial true consonant clusters and adjunct clusters. Specifically, this study sought evidence to determine whether the lack of voiced fricatives, such as /z/ and /v/, in English word-initial true and adjunct clusters is due to an active ban or an accidental gap in the language's phonotactics. This study also looked into whether the voiceless alveolar fricative /s/ is the only fricative that can play the role of adjunct segment in word-initial adjunct clusters, or whether other fricatives, such as the voiced alveolar fricative /z/, or the voiceless and voiced labiodental fricatives /f/ and /v/ could also be adjunct segments in word-initial adjunct clusters. Fourteen native English speakers were asked to pronounce a list of non-words containing word-initial clusters with /s/, /f/, /z/, and /v/ as the first consonant and /r/, /l/, /n/, /k/, and /g/ as the second consonant. The clusters were chosen to represent different voicing statuses and places of articulation for the first consonant in the cluster, in addition to differing sonority distances between the first consonant and the second consonant of the word-initial cluster. The native English speaker productions were recorded and acoustically analyzed in order to determine the exact pronunciations each speaker used for each target cluster. The results were then statistically analyzed to reveal patterns. Results showed that the lack of voiced fricatives as the first consonant in word-initial position of true clusters in English is due to an accidental gap, due to the relatively numerous correct productions of such clusters. The the lack of voiced fricatives as the first consonant in word-initial position of adjunct clusters in English, however, is due to an active ban, due to the difficulty that the native English speakers had in correctly producing such clusters. This study also concluded that while /s/ is the only adjunct segment in English, /f/ could also play that role.
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ALGHMAIZ, BANDAR ABDULAZIZ. "WORD-INITIAL CONSONANT CLUSTER PATTERNS IN THE ARABIC NAJDI DIALECT." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1078.

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Unlike in Classical Arabic, this study hypothesized that word-initial consonant clusters exist in Najdi Arabic as a result of first vowel deletion. The goal of this study was to investigate the word-initial consonant cluster patterns of Najdi Arabic and measure the sonority scale of this particular position. Ten native Najdi Arabic speakers were asked to pronounce 24 words and 24 sentences that contained all the possible consonant cluster patterns that could occur in Najdi Arabic. The output of the subjects revealed that Najdi Arabic does have initial consonant clusters in certain environments and that the minimum sonority distance was one step between the first and second onsets. The study found that the sonority distance between the first and second onsets plays a role in forming initial consonant clusters in Najdi. Additionally, the existence of less-marked consonant clusters was found to be more frequent than the more marked ones. Finally, the study proposed examining the pattern of the deleted vowel in future studies to determine whether it plays a role in the results.
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Sanoudaki, Eirini. "A CVCV model of consonant cluster acquisition : evidence from Greek." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2007. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1446084/.

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The aim of this thesis is to develop a model of the acquisition of consonant clusters within the phonological framework of CVCV theory. This is the first attempt to link CVCV to the area of language acquisition. It thus provides a new domain within which CVCV can be evaluated against other phonological theories. The core claim of CVCV is that syllable structure consists solely of onsets and nuclei, without any branching constituents. Consonant clusters are separated by empty nuclei, whose distribution is controlled by binary parameters. The model developed in this thesis is based on the assumption that a central part of the acquisition process is the gradual setting of these parameters to the appropriate value. The model, apart from covering familiar acquisition data, makes a number of predictions about the order of acquisition of consonant clusters. Of particular importance are predictions regarding word initial clusters of non-rising sonority, whose acquisition has attracted little attention. The predictions are tested against experimental data of cluster production by fifty-nine children acquiring Greek as their first language. The experimental results indicate that a CVCV model can account for consonant cluster acquisition. With regard to word initial position, the results support the proposed CVCV analysis by providing evidence for the existence of a word initial Onset-Nucleus unit. Moreover, the notoriously complex issue of s+consonant clusters is examined, and new evidence for the structure and markedness of these clusters is provided. Finally, the results offer a new perspective on a manner dissimilation phenomenon in Greek, whereby clusters of two voiceless fricatives or two voiceless stops turn into a fricative plus stop. A parametric analysis, based on segmental complexity, is proposed, and it is argued that this analysis can explain the acquisition data as well as the historical evolution of Greek clusters.
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Falahati, Ardestani Reza. "Gradient and Categorical Consonant Cluster Simplification in Persian: An Ultrasound and Acoustic Study." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26117.

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The main goal of this thesis is to investigate the nature of an optional consonant deletion process, through an articulatory and acoustic study of word-final consonant clusters in Persian. Persian word-final coronal stops are optionally deleted when they are preceded by obstruents or the homorganic nasal /n/. For example, the final clusters in the words /næft/ “oil”, /suχt/ “burnt” and /qæsd/ “intention” are optionally simplified in fast/casual speech, resulting in: [næf], [suχ], and [qæs]. What is not clear from this traditional description is whether the coronal stop is truly deleted, or if a coronal gesture is produced, but not heard, because it is obscured by the adjacent consonants. According to Articulatory Phonology (Browman & Goldstein 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990a, 1990b, 1992, 2001), the articulatory gestures of the deleted segments can still exist even if the segments are not heard. In this dissertation, ultrasound imaging was used to determine whether coronal consonant deletion in Persian is categorical or gradient, and the acoustic consequences of cluster simplification were investigated through duration and spectral measures. This phonetic study enables an account for the optional nature of the cluster simplification process. A general phonological account is provided for the simplification of coda clusters with rising sonority, and the acoustic and articulatory investigation focuses on the simplification of clusters with coronal stops. Ten Persian-speaking graduate students from the University of Ottawa and Carleton University, five male and five female, aged 25-38 participated in the articulatory and acoustic study. Audio and real time ultrasound video recordings were made while subjects had a guided conversation with a native speaker of Persian. 662 tokens of word-final coronal clusters were auditorily classified into unsimplified and simplified according to whether they contained an audible [t]. Singleton coda consonants and singleton /t/s were also captured as controls. The end of the constriction plateau of C1 and beginning of constriction plateau of C3 were used to define a time interval in which to measure the coronal gesture as the vertical distance between the tongue blade and the palate. Smoothing Splines ANOVA was used in a novel way to compare tongue blade height over time across the three conditions. The articulatory results of this study showed that the gestures of the deleted segments are often still present. More specifically, the findings showed that of the clusters that sounded simplified, some truly had no [t] gesture, some had gestural overlap, and some had reduced gestures. In order to explain the optional nature of the simplification process, it is argued that the simplified tokens are the result of two independent mechanisms. Inevitable mechanical and physiological effects generate gesturally reduced and overlapped tokens whereas planned language-specific behaviors driven by phonological rules or abstract cognitive representations result in no [t]-gesture output. The findings of this study support the main arguments presented in Articulatory Phonology regarding the underlying reasons for sound patterns and sound change. The results of this study are further used to examine different sound change models. It is argued that the simplified tokens with totally deleted [t] gesture could be the result of speakers changing their representations based on other people’s gestural overlap. This would be instances of the Choice and Chance categories in Blevins’ (2004) CCC sound change model. The acoustic results did not find any major cues which could distinguish simplified tokens from controls. It is argued that articulatory data should form an integral part of phonetic studies.
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Dixon, Ian J. "A Study of Language Attitudes Concerning the De-Affication of /tʃ/, the Pronunciation of the /tɾ/ Consonant Cluster, and the Use of the Definite Article with Proper Names in Santiago, Chile." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2379.

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This thesis analyzes the linguistic attitudes of natives from Santiago, Chile regarding three linguistic phenomena present in Chilean Spanish of Santiago: the fricative realization of the Spanish /tʃ/, the assibilated realization of /tɾ/ and the use of the definite article before the first names of people. The social factors of age, sex and socioeconomic status are acknowledged as possible factors contributing to the linguistic attitudes of the 64 participants interviewed.
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Seo, Misun. "A segment contact account of the patterning of sonorants in consonant clusters." Columbus, Ohio Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1070433081.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.
Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xiii, 227 p.; also includes graphics. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Elizabeth V. Hume, Dept. of Linguistics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-227).
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Books on the topic "Consonant cluster"

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Reassessing the role of the syllable in Italian phonology: An experimental study of consonant cluster syllabification, definite article allomorphy and segment duration. New York: Routledge, 2007.

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Hoole, Philip, Lasse Bombien, Marianne Pouplier, Christine Mooshammer, and Barbara Kühnert, eds. Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity. Berlin, Boston: DE GRUYTER, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781614510772.

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Hoole, Philip. Consonant clusters and structural complexity. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2012.

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Coetzee, Andries W. Tiberian Hebrew phonology: Focussing on consonant clusters. Assen, The Netherlands: Van Gorcum, 1999.

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Rochoń, Marzena. Optimality in complexity: The case of Polish consonant clusters. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2000.

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Polish and English consonantal clusters: A contrastive analysis within the strict CV framework. Katowice: Wydawn. Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2008.

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Kijak, Artur. Polish and English consonantal clusters: A contrastive analysis within the strict CV framework. Katowice: Wydawn. Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2008.

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Downing, Laura J., and Al Mtenje. Syllable Structure. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198724742.003.0005.

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The chapter begins with an overview of possible syllable types in Chichewa. Possible consonant sequences and issues relating to their syllabification are taken up next. Epenthesis strategies for adapting loanwords from languages which allow a wider variety of consonant cluster types are discussed in detail. Processes of vowel deletion and syllable reduction which create syllabic nasals conclude the discussion of the syllabification of consonant sequences. Vowel sequences are also limited in Chichewa. Morphologically conditioned vowel hiatus resolution strategies are illustrated in detail.
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Consonant Clusters. Childrens Pr, 2005.

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Dworkin, Steven N. Phonetics, phonology, and orthography of medieval Hispano-Romance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199687312.003.0002.

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This chapter describes the phonetics, phonology, and the orthographic practices of Old Spanish. It first identifies the vocalic and consonantal phonemes of the medieval language. The following sections describe specific phonetic and phonological issues such as possible allophonic variation between stressed and unstressed vowels, apocope of word-final /-e/, the formation and evolution of new and unfamiliar consonant clusters in the medieval language through vowel syncope, word-final consonant groups resulting from vowel apocope, the phonetic nature of word-initial /f-/, the nature of affricate consonants, and the possible first manifestations in the late medieval language of seseo and yeísmo. The chapter concludes with an overview of the wide orthographic variation in the earliest texts and the attempt to regularize to some degree spelling practices starting in the mid-thirteenth century.
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Schreier, Daniel. "Initial Cluster Reduction in English." In Consonant Change in English Worldwide, 56–125. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230513327_3.

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Schreier, Daniel. "Final Cluster Reduction in English." In Consonant Change in English Worldwide, 126–97. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230513327_4.

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Mayr, Robert, Danna Jones, and Ineke Mennen. "1. Speech Learning in Bilinguals: Consonant Cluster Acquisition." In Advances in the Study of Bilingualism, edited by Enlli Môn Thomas and Ineke Mennen, 3–24. Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit: Multilingual Matters, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.21832/9781783091713-004.

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Carley, Paul, and Inger M. Mees. "Consonant clusters." In American English Phonetics and Pronunciation Practice, 232–36. 1. | New York : Taylor and Francis, 2019.: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429492228-10.

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Schreier, Daniel. "Consonant Clusters." In Consonant Change in English Worldwide, 16–55. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230513327_2.

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Valdois, Sylviane. "Internal Structure of Two Consonant Clusters." In Springer Series in Neuropsychology, 253–69. New York, NY: Springer New York, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8969-9_15.

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Major, Roy C. "Markedness in Second Language Acquisition of Consonant Clusters." In Studies in Bilingualism, 75. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sibil.10.04maj.

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Eckman, Fred. "8. The reduction of word-final consonant clusters in interlanguage." In Sound Patterns in Second Language Acquisition, edited by Allan James and Jonathan Leather, 143–62. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110878486-009.

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Nespoulous, J. L., and N. Moreau. "Repair Strategies and Consonantal Cluster Production in Broca’s Aphasia." In Neuropsychology and Cognition, 71–80. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5776-6_4.

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Ragheb, Marwa, and Stuart Davis. "On the L1 development of final consonant clusters in Cairene Arabic." In Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVI, 263–82. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sal.2.18rag.

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Conference papers on the topic "Consonant cluster"

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Arai, Takayuki. "Integrated Mechanical Model of [r]-[l] and [b]-[m]-[w] Producing Consonant Cluster [br]." In Interspeech 2017. ISCA: ISCA, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2017-617.

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Shin, Eunjoo, Dasom Lee, Soo-Yeon Lee, and Soon-Bum Lim. "Solution to Problem of Consonant Cluster When Chinese is Notated by Using Hangul Input Keyboard Based on Hunminjeongeum." In Information Technology and Computer Science 2016. Science & Engineering Research Support soCiety, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.14257/astl.2016.133.32.

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Hoang, Dung, and Hoang Mai Le Nguyen. "Onset consonant clusters in Phu Quy dialect." In 2018 5th NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science (NICS). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/nics.2018.8606800.

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d’Apolito, Sonia. "Coarticulation of consonant clusters in Italian learners of French." In 3rd Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics. ExLing Society, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0008/000128.

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Leykum, Hannah, Sylvia Moosmüller, and Wolfgang U. Dressler. "Homophonous phonotactic and morphonotactic consonant clusters in word-final position." In Interspeech 2015. ISCA: ISCA, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2015-388.

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Xin, Ruiqing. "Phoneme Sonority Sequence and Combination Mechanism of Consonant Clusters in Kazakh." In 2020 7th International Conference on Information Science and Control Engineering (ICISCE). IEEE, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icisce50968.2020.00205.

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Feng, Gao. "The Evolution of Zhizhuangzhang Initial Consonants in Zhiyan Cluster of Jin Dialect." In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2018). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icelaic-18.2018.93.

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Masuda, Hinako, and Takayuki Arai. "Perception of consonant clusters in Japanese native speakers: influence of foreign language learning." In 2nd Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics. ExLing Society, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.36505/exling-2008/02/0041/000100.

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Cocioceanu, A., M. Barbulescu, T. Ivanoaica, M. Raportaru, and A. I. Nicolin. "Testing voice-based biometrics authentication platforms for Romanian utterances through infrequent consonant clusters." In 2016 15th RoEduNet Conference: Networking in Education and Research. IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/roedunet.2016.7753205.

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Romero, Daniel, Cristina Crison, and Joaquín Romero. "Producing sounds in contact by raising awareness of final -ed consonant clusters in English." In ISAPh 2018 International Symposium on Applied Phonetics. ISCA: ISCA, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/isaph.2018-20.

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