• consonant clusters. The H-cluster reductions are various consonant reductions that have occurred in the history of English, involving consonant clusters beginning...
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  • historical linguistics, cluster reduction is the simplification of consonant clusters in certain environments or over time. Cluster reduction can happen in different...
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  • wine–whine merger. It is also referred to as glide cluster reduction. Before rounded vowels, a different reduction process took place in Middle English, as a...
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  • S-cluster reduction, in some types of Caribbean English, where for example spit is pronounced pit. NG-coalescence – reduction of the final cluster [ŋɡ]...
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  • Some consonant clusters originate from the loss of a vowel in between two consonants, usually (but not always) due to vowel reduction caused by lack of...
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  • dialects, this phenomenon is known as R-labialisation. Final consonant clusters, like /-st, -sk/, are often simplified in conversational Singapore English...
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  • affected, not other consonants. Moreover, only the last member of a consonant cluster was subject to gradation, and single stops and affricates were only affected...
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  • AAVE.[citation needed] Consonant cluster reduction is a phonological process where a final consonant group or cluster, consisting of two consonant sounds...
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  • lost in the singulative. Aphaeresis Apocope Clipping (morphology) Cluster reduction Contraction Crasis Disemvoweling Elision in the French language Haplology...
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  • second vowel of a word was deleted unless it was adjacent to a consonant cluster or a final consonant. Apheresis (linguistics) Apocope Clipping (morphology)...
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  • and feature extraction. Dimensionality reduction can be used for noise reduction, data visualization, cluster analysis, or as an intermediate step to...
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  • consonant, e.g., [ɡʌk] for ‘duck’ - Consonant cluster reduction: omission of a consonant in a target word cluster, e.g., [kæk] for ‘cracker’ - Velar fronting:...
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  • are consonant-glide clusters that form through the morphophonological processes described above. Additionally, an underlying cluster of a consonant followed...
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    spectral clustering techniques make use of the spectrum (eigenvalues) of the similarity matrix of the data to perform dimensionality reduction before clustering...
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    Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) is an international treaty that prohibits all use, transfer, production, and stockpiling of cluster munitions, a...
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  • Unpacking Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope Apocope Haplology Cluster reduction Transphonologization Compensatory lengthening Nasalization Tonogenesis...
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  • hierarchical clustering (also called hierarchical cluster analysis or HCA) is a method of cluster analysis that seeks to build a hierarchy of clusters. Strategies...
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  • Unpacking Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope Apocope Haplology Cluster reduction Transphonologization Compensatory lengthening Nasalization Tonogenesis...
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  • Gabus also appear. The Hungarian variation was formed by consonant cluster reduction and the shortening of the Latin version. The meaning of the original...
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  • Unpacking Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope Apocope Haplology Cluster reduction Transphonologization Compensatory lengthening Nasalization Tonogenesis...
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  • rest of the family. The Hungarian variant was formed by consonant cluster reduction in the Latin version by inserting an 'a' sound. The etymology of the...
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  • Unpacking Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope Apocope Haplology Cluster reduction Transphonologization Compensatory lengthening Nasalization Tonogenesis...
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  • Unpacking Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope Apocope Haplology Cluster reduction Transphonologization Compensatory lengthening Nasalization Tonogenesis...
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  • described as 'the general quality of CE [Caribbean English] vowels, the sharp reduction in the number of diphthongal glides and, the most distinguishing feature...
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  • Creole is isomorphic with the Jamaican phoneme system TH stopping Cluster reduction Avoidance of [ʃ], [ʒ], [f], [v] phonemes H dropping Semivowels Non-rhoticity...
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  • insertion of an r in its place. Sometimes this occurs in conjunction with the reduction of the final vowel in the first word to a schwa: examples of this are...
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  • Unpacking Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope Apocope Haplology Cluster reduction Transphonologization Compensatory lengthening Nasalization Tonogenesis...
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  • observation belongs to the cluster with the nearest mean (cluster centers or cluster centroid), serving as a prototype of the cluster. This results in a partitioning...
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  • affricate or fricative. Reduction: Whereas the weakening of consonants is called lenition, the weakening of vowels is called reduction. For example, in most...
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  • all-postalveolar consonant clusters [tʃɹ] and [dʒɹ]. This phenomenon also occurs in /str/, resulting in the all-postalveolar consonant cluster [ʃtʃɹ]. The affrication...
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