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Languages tend to preserve manner of articulation of consonants in specific contexts, including when they occur in clusters. This paper explains the kind of structure these clusters display.

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A typological study of consonant clusters. Diachronic and synchronic implications on the manifestation of closure (manner of articulation) in consonants. A comparative study on a unrelated languages (Gadsup New Guinea, Berber North Africa, Soninke West Africa).

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An extensive study of consonant clusters from a typological perspective.

Dr Mohamed Lahrouchi
CNRS - UMR SFL

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This page is a summary of: The typology of the distribution of Edge: the propensity for bipositionality, Papers in Historical Phonology, November 2016, Edinburgh University Library,
DOI: 10.2218/pihph.1.2016.1696.
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