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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]
Y-cluster reductions[edit] See also: § Yod-rhotacization. Y-cluster reductions are reductions of clusters ending with the palatal approximant /j/, which is the sound of y in yes, and is sometimes referred to as "yod", from the Hebrew letter yod (h), which has the sound [j]. Many such clusters arose in dialects in which the falling diphthong ...
Cluster reduction. In phonology and historical linguistics, cluster reduction is the simplification of consonant clusters in certain environments or over time. Cluster reduction can happen in different languages, dialects of those languages, in world Englishes, and as a part of language acquisition.
In phonology, epenthesis ( / ɪˈpɛnθəsɪs, ɛ -/; Greek ἐπένθεσις) means the addition of one or more sounds to a word, especially in the beginning syllable ( prothesis) or in the ending syllable ( paragoge) or in-between two syllabic sounds in a word. The word epenthesis comes from epi- 'in addition to' and en- 'in' and thesis ...
Blend word. In linguistics, a blend —also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau [a] —is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and meanings of two or more words. [2] [3] [4] English examples include smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, [3] [5] as well as motel, from motor ( motorist) and hotel. [6]
The deletion occurs especially if the final consonant is a nasal or a stop. Final-consonant deletion is much less frequent than the more common final-cluster reduction. Consonants can also be deleted at the end of a morpheme boundary, leading to pronunciations like [kɪːz] for kids. Other changes /t–r/ merger
Most descriptions of Russian describe it as having five vowel phonemes, though there is some dispute over whether a sixth vowel, / ɨ /, is separate from /i/. Russian has 34 consonants, which can be divided into two types: hard ( твёрдый [ˈtvʲɵrdɨj] ⓘ) or plain. soft ( мягкий [ˈmʲæxʲkʲɪj] ⓘ) or palatalized.
In phonetics and historical linguistics, fusion, or coalescence, is a sound change where two or more segments with distinctive features merge into a single segment. This can occur both on consonants and in vowels. A word like educate is one that may exhibit fusion, e.g. /ˈɛdjʊkeɪt/ or /ˈɛdʒʊkeɪt/. A merger between two segments can also ...