Effects of selected phonological processes on consonant clusters of Tshivenḓa
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The study presents explanation on the effects of selected phonological processes on consonant clusters of Tshivenḓa. This is a qualitative study and the researcher adopted a descriptive research design, a pure research paradigm which branched to exploratory interpretive and the optimality theoretical framework to note the possible constraints of phonological processes in Tshivenḓa. The study’s population target are the Venḓa speaking people by whom a sample of ten speakers was selected. It is noted from the findings that the selected phonological processes are de-nasalisation, de-aspiration, fortisation, labialization and vowel epenthesis. These phonological processes are the cause of consonant cluster formation, consonant cluster reduction and consonant cluster simplification. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) was used for data analysis together with the Optimality Theory.
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