The differences between both groups of children disappear by age five. However, the effect of sonority (sonority hypothesis, Ohala 1999) on these cluster reductions is similar in both groups of children. the hypothesis that the Sonority Cycle acts as a constraint on the mental representation of syllable structure provides a unified explanation of these data. In addition, children with CI reduce consonant clusters for a longer period than their NH peers.
Results show that children with CI produce consonant clusters less frequently and less accurately than their NH peers. Word onset two-element consonant clusters are analysed using multilevel models. Nine children with CI and 84 NH children were followed longitudinally: monthly from the onset of word production up to 24 months of age and yearly between three and seven years of age. The present study has taken up from these observations and examines the frequency of each phonological process in consonant cluster production and compares it in both groups of children. Furthermore, a quantified comparison between both groups of children is missing in the literature, as well as studies on the spontaneous speech of Dutch-speaking children with CI. However, the incidence of those phonological processes has not been examined in the literature thus far. Research has shown that children with cochlear implants (CI) use the same phonological processes as normally hearing (NH) peers with respect to consonant cluster development. When both groups of participants reduced word initial clusters to a target consonant, the sonority hypothesis was adhered to but when the clusters were reduced to a non-target consonant, the sonority hypothesis was violated. Nederlandse Vereniging voor Fonetische Wetenschappen The childrens consonant cluster productions characterized by a cluster reduction were analysed. This Sonority Hypothesis ( SH ) expects that initial clusters will reduce. The increasing effect of complexity in children with cochlear implants: Consonant cluster development Finer classification produces a Sonority Hierarchy, as in shown in Figure 1.
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