This study accounts for the acquisition of the consonant clusters of English syllable structures both in onset and coda positions by Persian EFL learners. Persian syllable structure is "CV(CC)", composed of one consonant at the initial position and two optional consonants at the final position; whereas English syllable structure is "(CCC)V(CCCC)". Therefore, Persian EFL learners need to resolve...

Mismatch negativity (MMN) was used to investigate the processing of cluster and noncluster initial consonants in consonant-vowel syllables in the human brain. The MMN was elicited by either syllable with cluster or noncluster initial consonant, phonetic contrasts being identical in both syllables. Compared to the noncluster consonant, the cluster consonant elicited a more prominent MMN. The MMN...

We investigated the mechanisms of vowel epenthesis in consonant clusters using the WAVE system (NDI Corp.). Tongue tip movements were measured during the articulation of native and non-native consonant clusters in English. The subjects were three English speakers (2 males and 1 female). The speech samples were 3 words: blat, bnat, btat. In these words, consonant cluster /bl/ is native in Englis...

The timing of consonant clusters in Swedish has been studied intensively. However, from a phonological perspective coda-internal timing with regards to quantity has not yet successfully been studied. This study intends to provide more data on the duration of Swedish consonant clusters: (a) sonorant-sonorant clusters and (b) sonorant-obstruent clusters. In addition consonant clusters illegal in ...

in order to simplify the pronunciation ofthe adult's words,children use phonological processes inthe initial years oftheir speech growth.the present study aims at considering phonological processes ina group oftwo tofour-year old farsi speaking children.the results indicate that itisnot possible to correctly and precisely account forthe occurrences ofsuch processes in children’s pronunciat...

We demonstrate that adult English speakers make use of perceptual principles in medial consonant cluster deletion. Cross-linguistically, consonant cluster simplification via deletion is more likely apply to the first consonant rather than the second consonant (if both consonants are of equal sonority). Adult native English speakers, were given a two-alternative forced-choice task in which eithe...