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frankwu

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on: Jun 20, 2018
A child who says gug for bug and gig for big but who properly pronounces /b/ in some contexts, is demonstrating
 
  a) cluster reduction
  b) perceptual difficulties
  c) assimilation
  d) stylistic variation

Question 2

The sound patterns of Spanish and English present somewhat different challenges to children. Which statement below is FALSE?
 
  a) English has more word-initial consonant clusters than Spanish
  b) Spanish has more words with final consonants than English
  c) the average length of Spanish words is greater than the average length of English words.
  d) English has more different vowels than Spanish.


aburgess

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

b


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