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Peer reviewedPertz, D. L.; Bever, T. G. – Language, 1975
A non-English portion of the universal initial-cluster hierarchy is cognitively represented in English-speaking monolingual children and adolescents. Subjects in an experiment were asked to select frequency of non-English consonant clusters, and they were able to reconstruct the phonological hierarchy. (CK)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Language, Children, Consonants
