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/s/ plus stop clusters in children's speech.

Z S Bond·H F Wilson
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Young children frequently substitute stops for fricative-stop clusters. In this paper, we report acoustic measurements for children's intended voiced and voiceless stops, and for stops substituting for clusters. Judging from voice-onset time measurements, children employ various strategies for assigning phonological status to the substituted stops.

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Child LanguageChild, PreschoolHumansInfantLanguage DevelopmentPhonationSpeech AcousticsVoiceJournal ArticleResearch Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Z S Bond, H F Wilson. 1980. /s/ plus stop clusters in children's speech.. https://doi.org/10.1159/000259988

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