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Global information and intrinsic ordering*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

D. L. Goyvaerts
D. L. Goyvaerts*
Affiliation:
University of Antwerp & University of Brussels
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Extract

Many native speakers of American English show in their speech a phenomenon that could be called ‘consonant cluster simplification.’ This may be illustrated by examples such as:

Rule R1 below would account for the simplification of these CCC-cluster:

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , Spring 1977 , pp. 43 - 46
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1977

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Footnotes

*

For Joe Emonds, in memory of Zucky’s.

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