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What is Elision?
In linguistics, an elision or deletion is the omission of one
or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole
syllable) in a word or phrase.
In this respect, Finch (2005: 44-45) points out that such a typeof elision
is due to ''casual speech '' as illustrated in the following examples:
Consider the
following instances in which the medial plosive /t / is elided:
acts /akts / /aks /
looked back /lukt bak / /luk bak /
When does it happen?
While often described as occurring in "slurred" speech, elisions are a normal
speech phenomenon and come naturally to native speakers of the language
in which they occur.
Contractions such as can not → can't involve elision, and "dropping" of word-
internal unstressed vowels (known specifically as syncope) is frequent:
Mississippi → Missippi, history → histry, mathematics → mathmatics.
Various elisions are common in many varieties of Spanish, one of the most
frequent being loss of /d/ in past participles and other forms ending in /do/:
(Gimson, 1977:298)
Elision of / t / may sometimes occur before a vowel:
You mustn't over eat it. / ju m ∂ sn ouv ∂ r i: it /
Elision of / h /
/ i /,
have / ∂ v / and
her / ∂ / .
Elision of Dental Fricatives
months / m^n€s / / m^ ns /
clothes / klou₫iz/ / klouz /
thank you
Thank you
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