cluster reduction

collocation in English

meanings of clusterand reduction

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cluster
noun[C]
uk /ˈklʌs.tər/ us /ˈklʌs.tɚ/
a group of similar things that are close together, sometimes ...
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reduction
noun
uk /rɪˈdʌk.ʃən/ us /rɪˈdʌk.ʃən/
the act of making something, or of something becoming, smaller in size, amount, degree, ...
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Examples of cluster reduction

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The relative frequency of consonant clusterreduction has also been linked to social variables such as social status, ethnicity, and style.
In this paper, we apply two fundamental principles of optimality theory to yield predictions about other children's clusterreduction patterns.
The sonority pattern of clusterreduction requires that the onset sonority constraints dominate any conflicting constraints.
In clusterreduction, they favour deletion of fricatives and velars, which, in some circumstances, will conflict with a sonority-based choice.
Therefore, the process of syllable-initial consonant deletion could be considered as clusterreduction.
Rule-based theories would fail completely to relate a process such as stopping to the avoidance of fricatives in clusterreduction.
On the one hand, there is the phonological process of syllable-final consonant clusterreduction, which affects syllables that end in a stop that shares voicing with the immediately preceding consonant.
Tracing language history through consonant clusterreduction.
Table 4 shows that the incidence of clusterreduction follows the typical systematic patterning of independent linguistic constraints, but that there is a significant difference based on ethnicity.
Factorial typology allowed us to use constraints motivated for other child language processes to derive predictions about how children could diverge from the sonority pattern in clusterreduction.
There is no evidence for the ranking of these constraints in the ambient language, so children will differ in which ranking they adopt, thus producing different patterns of clusterreduction.
When either a consonant or a pause follows the cluster, there instead seems to be a weak tendency for clusterreduction to be favored by stress.
Some common error patterns (found 10% or more of the time) are clusterreduction, liquid simplification, and stopping.
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See vowel reduction, clusterreduction, lenition, and elision.
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