Heavy consonance

In linguistics, heavy consonance refers to clusters of consonants , especially occlusive ones , in the initial or final phase (cf. German Ja gd ).

Dealing with heavy consonance varies from language to language, although general phonological phenomena can be observed. While a consonant accumulation is relatively problem-free in Czech ( srpen ›August‹) or in Japanese due to the given syllable structure, there are a number of phonetic changes in other languages ​​that are supposed to prevent severe consonance, such as the prosthesis (prefixed with an initial Vowels: Italian per scritto → per i scritto ) or epenthesis (insertion of a sound, usually a vowel, into a lexeme: lomb . Pad e r instead of padr , which is created by apocopes of the final e of padre ).