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Learning speech is a complex process. Even though the human brain is predisposed to learning patterns of language, sometimes our brains make their own rules for how language should be spoken, especially if a sound is hard to produce. These are called speech errors, and they are more common than you’d think. Leaving off an /s/ sound in consonant clusters is called cluster reduction, and it is a phonological error that a speech-language pathologist can help correct in speech th