Word-initial consonant clusters
Effects of orthography on production and perception of English initial consonant clusters by L1 Persian speakers
... This study investigated the influence of L1 orthography on Persian speakers’ production and perception of English initial consonant clusters. In contrast to English, word-initial ...
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The modification of English /s/+ consonant onset clusters by Levant Arabic speakers
... within word-initial consonant clusters as a strategy to facilitate the articulation of these ...targeted clusters without epenthesis; instead, the /s/ is shortened while the closure of ...
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A constraint-based approach to acquisition of word-final consonant clusters in Turkish children
... Moreover, the fact that Turkish has an allegedly tri-moraic structure (Topbas & Kopkalli Yavuz, 1999; also see Inkelas & Orgun, 1992) makes it an even more interesting case in testing sonority in word- final ...
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Phonotactic Cruciality of English Initial and Final Consonant Clusters’ Pronunciation on Sudanese EFL Undergraduates
... Abstract This study identifies Sudanese EFL undergraduates’ phonological errors in pronouncing English words involving ICCs and FCCs and its causes. It’s also carried out to investigate the effectiveness of methods, ...
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On the articulation, aerodynamics, and acoustics of voiceless consonant clusters
... German word initial >st< is commonly pronounced as / ʃ ...the word ‘Stalinende’ and instructed the subjects to realize it with initial /st/ which is a possible pronunciation in German, and the ...
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A New Dutch Non-Word-Repetition Task to Test the Production of Consonant Clusters With and Without /s/ by TD Dutch Children
... in initial and final position in ...complex initial and final positions and are both allowed in internal coda ...second consonant of the cluster (the one after the internal /m/) is not a coronal ...
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Consonant Combinations in Annang and English Languages: A Look at Final Clusters
... foreign word and in the Annang context it is used mostly by elderly ...actual word in ...final clusters which are not allowed in Annang even at initial ...
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The problem of consonant clusters of Sudanese non-native speakers of English language
... clusters illegal in English. In this paper the findings of two experiments are compared and discussed. In the first one 25 native speakers of English imitated Ukrainian words containing word-initial ...
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Patterns of English Consonant Clusters in E. M. Forster’s ‘‘The Road From Colonus’’
... words: Consonant Clusters, Sequence, Initial, Medial, Final, ...A consonant sequence is mentioned to mean a run of consonants uninterrupted by a vowel or a ...into initial, medial and ...
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Syllabification of Final Consonant Clusters: A Salient Pronunciation Problem of Kurdish EFL Learners
... of consonant clusters ...English clusters were diagnosed in their oral performance in the author’s graduate classes at a private university in Northern ...problematic consonant ...
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Bombien, Lasse (2011): Segmental and prosodic aspects in the production of consonant clusters: on the goodness of clusters. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften
... . Segmental and prosodic effects (EMA) boundary strength decreasing with distance from the boundary which is in line with the π-gesture approach. e data also confirm that accentual effects are not local to the primary ...
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Analyzing Arabic-English interlanguage coda consonant clusters : optimality theoretic approach / Ala'a Mohammed Amin A Turkustani
... complex clusters in coda ...coda consonant clusters which Arabic speakers encounter when pronouncing English words or ...coda clusters produced by native speakers of Arabic within the ...
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A markedness analysis of initial consonant clusters in Aphasic Phonological Impairment: A case study
... Results indicate that there was a stronger tendency for a progression to occur, rather than a nonprogression. As the S approximated the target segment, he substituted phonemes or phon[r] ...
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The present study is concerned with place assimilation in consonant clusters. In such
... Nasalised vowels are perceptually difficult in comparison with oral vowels, and their amplitudes are decreased by anti-formants (Johnson 1997). Thus, nasalised vowels are normally less[r] ...
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Typological Universals and Intrinsic Universals on the L2 Acquisition of Consonant Clusters
... National Taiwan Normal University [email protected] Abstract This study is to examine if typological universals built upon primary languages are applicable to interlanguage data in SLA. Implicational universal is ...
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Parsing word clusters
... when parsing the gold POS+lemma pairs (the non realistic G OLD C AT L EMMA setting 10 ), performance is greatly improved (+1.80 F 1 over the baseline). Replacing morphological clusters by their corre- sponding ...
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Parsing Word Clusters
... when parsing the gold POS+lemma pairs (the non realistic G OLD C AT L EMMA setting 10 ), performance is greatly improved (+1.80 F 1 over the baseline). Replacing morphological clusters by their corre- sponding ...
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Asymmetries of consonant sequences in perception and production: affricates vs. /s/ clusters. &
... the initial segment is a stop and the second is a .../s/ clusters exhibit a relative degree of decomposition due to the fact that they violate the first factor, namely their members do not share the same ...
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Neutralisation and contrast preservation: Voicing assimilation in Hungarian three-consonant clusters
... /st/−/zd/ clusters, vowel-to-consonant duration ratio is also significantly different and shows the same vowel shortening effects as in the case of utterance-final ...the word-final pre-sonorant ...
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Competing factors in phonological learning models : the acquisition of English consonant clusters
... In essence, though both Boersma and Levelt Constraint Sets achieved some measure of success in the criteria aimed for in this thesis, both fell short under close inspection. Based on the two criteria that the constraint ...
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