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Synonyms for cluster

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Synonyms for cluster

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Synonyms for cluster

a grouping of a number of similar things

gather or cause to gather into a cluster

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* Cue 3: Giving meter to separate vowels and consonants or consonant clusters make the singer's intention much clearer to the pianist.
Finally, we accidentally found out that the simplification of final consonant clusters in three of the words ('hard', 'heard' and 'card') may have influenced the results of the intelligibility test.
I contend this because long consonants are only ever found at a morpheme boundary intersecting a consonant cluster. In particular, they are found in the following two environments:
Up to this point in the evolution, Khotanese consonant cluster writing with regard to /t/ and /d/ simply followed the Indian practice.
The S4 vowel is the shortest in words ending with a consonant cluster (60, 77 and 81 ms).
Table 4 shows syllable boundaries in-between the ill-formed consonant cluster at intervocalic position of the words.
1999 "Evaluating the evidence for lengthening before homorganic consonant clusters in the Ormulum", in: Gerald F.
Kiswahili treats loanwords from Arabic with medial consonant cluster, final consonant cluster and just a final consonant in a similar way.
On the basis of these teachers' input, we constructed a dictation test consisting of 30 words that contained an ambiguous sound-spelling relationship, a complex consonant cluster, or both.
The other GVGC structure had a consonant cluster at the end (as in best); thus, and clusters involve simple consonants, the end letters correspond to two separate phonemes.
with Consonants'; but in addition Pope has chosen to repeat the consonant cluster str- (`stretch', `string',`struck').
While epenthesis breaks up a marked consonant cluster, syncope, which deletes a medial, typically unaccented vowel, is induced by economy.
It is the conformation of voiced consonants to unvoiced consonants and vice versa, depending upon their position in a consonant cluster. Assimilation adds to the fluidity of the language because voiced and unvoiced consonants will never appear together in a cluster.
igl?s/ m?gl?s ?g?bl?s/ m?g?bl?s rooms for guests The last group of singulars that takes the Vb infix begin with consonant cluster CC word initially (forms (a) and (b) below).