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What is a consonant cluster?

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1 What is a consonant cluster?
What are positions of clusters? What are examples of clusters?

2 A consonant cluster, a consonant sequence or a consonant compound is “a group of consonants which have no intervening vowels. The groups /spl/ and /ts/ are consonant clusters in the word splits.” Roach (2002: 14)

3 Two-consonant Initial Clusters
Pre-initial Initial

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5 Cluster Initial Post-initial

6 Three-consonant Initial Clusters
Post-initial Pre-initial

7 Give examples for the following initial clusters.

8 Pl

9 Kl

10 Bl

11 Gl

12 Pr

13 Tr

14 Kr

15 Br

16 Dr

17 Gr

18 Tw

19 Kw

20 Dw

21 Pj

22 Tj

23 Qj

24 Bj

25 Dj

26 Fl

27 Fr

28 thr

29 Shr

30 Mj

31 Nj

32 Fj

33 Vj

34 Hj

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