{"id":39199,"date":"2025-05-05T14:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bridge.edu\/tefl\/blog\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=39199"},"modified":"2025-05-05T14:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:05:14","slug":"iatefl-pronsig-secret-lives-of-consonant-clusters","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/bridge.edu\/tefl\/blog\/event\/iatefl-pronsig-secret-lives-of-consonant-clusters\/","title":{"rendered":"IATEFL PronSIG &#8211; Secret Lives of Consonant Clusters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>PronSIG &#8211; Secret Lives of Consonant Clusters<\/h1>\n<div class=\"title-underline\"><\/div>\n<p>Consonant clusters are often neglected, but impede learners\u2019 ability to understand and be understood \u2026.. especially since clusters are often reduced in spontaneous speech, which also contains \u2018illegal\u2019 clusters. I will introduce legal and illegal clusters, suggest ways of helping learners negotiate clusters in speaking and listening, consider implications for ELF, and show how cluster instability throws light on spelling.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Speaker:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Jonathan Marks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iatefl.org\/sites\/iatefl.org\/files\/civicrm\/persist\/contribute\/images\/P1010549%20-%20Jonathan%20Marks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"269\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Marks is a founder member and former coordinator of the PronSIG. He is the author of &#8216;English Pronunciation in Use Elementary&#8217; (CUP) and co-author of &#8216;The Book of Pronunciation&#8217; (Delta Publishing).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iatefl.org\/events\/679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">REGISTER HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PronSIG &#8211; Secret Lives of Consonant Clusters Consonant clusters are often neglected, but impede learners\u2019 ability to understand and be understood \u2026.. especially since clusters are often reduced in spontaneous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":39200,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-39199","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"a3_pvc":{"activated":false,"total_views":0,"today_views":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.edu\/tefl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/39199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.edu\/tefl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.edu\/tefl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.edu\/tefl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.edu\/tefl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/39199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39202,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.edu\/tefl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/39199\/revisions\/39202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.edu\/tefl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.edu\/tefl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.edu\/tefl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39199"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.edu\/tefl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=39199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}