title: Patterns of cluster reduction in the acquisition of #sC onsets: are bilinguals different from monolinguals?
abstract: This article is a comparative look at the cluster reduction patterns of English #sC onsets in three groups of children. Data from 40 monolingual, 40 Spanish-English bilingual and 40 Haitian Creole-English bilingual children were examined. While there were several similarities in the patterns exhibited by the three groups, there was a sharp contrast regarding /sl-/ clusters between monolingual children and the two groups of bilinguals. Among the predictions offered for reduction patterns in recent literature, 'factorial typology' of  Pater and Barlow (2003 ) appeared to be the most successful.
authors: Linguistics Program, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA. yavasm@fiu.edu
authors: Mehmet
authors: M
authors: Yavaş
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002663:Child Language; D002675:Child, Preschool; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D005260:Female; D006205:Haiti; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007802:Language; D007804:Language Development; D008297:Male; D019303:Multilingualism; D010699:Phonation; D010700:Phonetics