A PERCEPTUAL ANALYSIS OF CONSONANT CLUSTER REDUCTION

The reduction of a consonant cluster to a single segment is a common phenomenon in child language (see Smith (1973), Fikkert (1994), Gnanadesikan (1995), Pater and Barlow (2003), Jongstra (2003a,b) among others). Children often reduce a consonant cluster by deleting either the first or second member of the cluster.1 Some examples are shown in (1) ................
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