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In linguistics, a consonant cluster, consonant sequence or consonant compound, is a group of consonants which have no intervening vowel. In English, for example, the groups /spl/ and /ts/ are consonant clusters in the word splits. In the education field it is variously called a consonant cluster or a consonant blend.[1][2]
Some linguists[who?] argue that the term can be properly applied only to those consonant clusters that occur within one syllable. Others claim that the concept is more useful when it includes consonant sequences across syllable boundaries. According to the former definition, the longest consonant clusters in the word extra would be /ks/ and /tr/,[3] whereas the latter allows /kstr/, which is phonetically [kst̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷ] in some accents.
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transcription delimiters. In linguistics, a consonantcluster, consonant sequence or consonant compound, is a group of consonants which have no intervening vowel...
of consonantclusters. The H-cluster reductions are various consonant reductions that have occurred in the history of English, involving consonant clusters...
contrastive even word-finally, and aspirated consonants occur in consonantclusters. In Wahgi, consonants are aspirated only when they are in final position...
When preceded and followed by coronal or dorsal consonants, [ɨ] is fronted to [ɨ̟]. After a cluster of a labial and /ɫ/, [ɨ] is retracted, as in плыть...
vertically, writing the second consonant of the cluster below the first one. The two consonants may also merge as conjunct consonant letters, where two or more...
and ৱ (vo); and the letter ক্ষ (khya) has evolved into an individual consonant by itself with its own phonetic quality whereas in the Bengali alphabet...
Dionysius Thrax to describe Greek sonorants. Liquid consonants are more prone to be part of consonantclusters and of the syllable nucleus. Their third formants...
manner as well. Palatal consonants can be distinguished from apical palatalized consonants and consonantclusters of a consonant and the palatal approximant...
the consonantcluster ত্র trô and the independent vowel এ e, also the letter হ hô and Bengali Ôbogroho ঽ (~ô) and letter ও o and consonantcluster ত্ত...
/pʼ/, /t͡sʼ/, /kʼ/. They cannot appear as the second member of a consonantcluster. Historical *tʼ is /cʼ/ in Osage. Voiced: with b being the only member...
phonotactics of a given language may discourage vowels in hiatus or consonantclusters, and a consonant or vowel may be added to make pronunciation easier. Epenthesis...
marks accompanying a consonant character, and indicating what vowel sound is to be pronounced after that consonant (or consonantcluster). Most dependent...
syllable final Similar to the consonantcluster simplification process, there are four processes by which a syllable-final consonant is altered: b → w / syllable...
Nucleus (ν): A vowel or syllabic consonant, obligatory in most languages Coda (κ): A consonant or consonantcluster, optional in some languages, highly...
English are consonantclusters such as the [nd] in candy, but many languages have prenasalized stops that function phonologically as single consonants. Swahili...
other members of the Brahmic family (Javanese), the consonantcluster is written cursively. Each consonant letter has a corresponding either gantungan or gempelan...
e.g. [ə, u, i], disrupting an initial consonantcluster. Schwa [ə] presyllables vary with consonantclusters, CəCVC ~ CCVC, in some forms. Presyllables...
transliterates such sounds from other languages using the digraph/consonantcluster ⟨μπ⟩, mp.) Old English was originally written in runes, whose equivalent...
texts. In pegon, consonantclusters are written in two ways. In clusters that consist of a nasal consonant followed by a liquid consonant, such as [mr],...
Consonantclusters in Bengali are very common word-initially and elsewhere due to a long history of borrowing from Sanskrit, a language with a large cluster...
by ⟨r⟩ and ⟨rh⟩ in Latin, but merged to the same [r] in English. Clusters of consonants may be simplified, producing silent letters; e.g. silent ⟨th⟩ in...
historical linguistics, cluster reduction is the simplification of consonantclusters in certain environments or over time. Cluster reduction can happen...
pronounced as the voiceless consonantcluster /ks/ when it follows the stressed vowel (e.g. ox), and the voiced consonant /ɡz/ when it precedes the stressed...
voiceless palatal fricative [ç], but this is analysed phonemically as the consonantcluster /hj/ so that huge is transcribed /hjuːdʒ/. As with /hw/, this does...
stops and affricates were affected, not other consonants. Moreover, only the last member of a consonantcluster was subject to gradation, and single stops...
more consecutive consonants are followed by a vowel then a jodakshar (consonantcluster) is formed. Some examples of consonantclusters are shown below:...
different treatment of additional consonant letters for the aspirated consonants (/pʰ, kʰ/) and consonantclusters (/ks, ps/) of Greek. These four types...
words contained consonantclusters which, in oral transmission, had been reduced to simpler consonantclusters or single consonants in previous centuries...
only a single consonant in the middle of a word: sta.men, æ.ther, hy.phen, phœ.nix, ter.mi.nus, a.pos.tro.phe. By those consonantclusters that do not fully...
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