Whether it does relate to processing or something else, the mergers are there. It's like how most Americans merge "marry" and "merry" - they just do it for dozens of different sound-clusters
Oh I don't think it is though. Kids famously have different pronunciation difficulties (see how many speech pathologists there are), and similarly they have a wide range of spelling abilities. Based on my observation, I think spelling ability variation has a lot to do with
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