cluster reduction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofclusterandreduction
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cluster
noun[C]
uk/ˈklʌs.tər/us/ˈklʌs.tɚ/
a group of similar things that are close together, sometimes ...
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reduction
noun
uk/rɪˈdʌk.ʃən/us/rɪˈdʌk.ʃən/
the act of making something, or of something becoming, smaller in size, amount, degree, ...
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The relative frequency of consonantclusterreductionhas also been linked to social variables such as social status, ethnicity, and style.
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In this paper, we apply two fundamental principles of optimality theory to yield predictions about other children'sclusterreductionpatterns.
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The sonority pattern ofclusterreductionrequires that the onset sonority constraints dominate any conflicting constraints.
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Inclusterreduction, they favour deletion of fricatives and velars, which, in some circumstances, will conflict with a sonority-based choice.
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Therefore, the process of syllable-initial consonant deletion could be considered asclusterreduction.
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Rule-based theories would fail completely to relate a process such as stopping to the avoidance of fricatives inclusterreduction.
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On the one hand, there is the phonological process of syllable-final consonantclusterreduction, which affects syllables that end in a stop that shares voicing with the immediately preceding consonant.
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Tracing language history through consonantclusterreduction.
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Table 4 shows that the incidence ofclusterreductionfollows the typical systematic patterning of independent linguistic constraints, but that there is a significant difference based on ethnicity.
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Factorial typology allowed us to use constraints motivated for other child language processes to derive predictions about how children could diverge from the sonority pattern inclusterreduction.
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There is no evidence for the ranking of these constraints in the ambient language, so children will differ in which ranking they adopt, thus producing different patterns ofclusterreduction.
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When either a consonant or a pause follows the cluster, there instead seems to be a weak tendency forclusterreductionto be favored by stress.
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Some common error patterns (found 10% or more of the time) areclusterreduction, liquid simplification, and stopping.
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See vowel reduction,clusterreduction, lenition, and elision.
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