Initial consonant clusters in Prussian

Positional effects in consonant clusters

Epenthesis in liquid+consonant clusters in Scots

Substitution errors in the production of word-initial and word-final consonant clusters.

PURPOSE This study provides a comprehensive examination of substitutions that occur at Greenlee's 3rd stage of cluster development (M. Greenlee, 1974). At this stage of cluster acquisition, children are able to produce the correct number of consonants but with 1 or more of these consonants being substituted for another. METHOD Participants were 11 typically developing children ages 1;5-2;7 (y...

Memory biases in matching and recall: Evidence from initial consonant clusters

Perception and memory of linguistic information is biased in favor of stimuli that conform to structural regularities. At the level of word form, there is evidence that initial consonant clusters varying in grammatical status (e.g., br vs. *bn, *bd, *rb) differentially affect response times in same-different matching (e.g., slower responses to rbif REBIF than to brif BERIF; Berent & Lennertz, 2...

Intrinsic and Prosodic Effects on Articulatory Coordination in Initial Consonant Clusters

EMA was used to study the coordination of the articulatory gestures for C1 and C2 in onset clusters, firstly as a function of the segmental make-up of the clusters, and secondly as a function of stress and prosodic boundary conditions. The segmental results, which compared German and French, indicated a much lower degree of overlap of C1 and C2 for C2=/n/ compared to C2=/l/ (with C1=/p, b, k, g...