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Definitions of elision in various dictionaries:
noun - omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)
noun - a deliberate act of omission
Omission of a final or initial sound in pronunciation.
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| the fact of not pronouncing a particular sound in a word |
| The omission of a sound or syllable when speaking (as in I'm, let's) |
| The process of joining together or merging things, especially abstract ideas. |
| the omission of a sound or syllable when speaking (as in iI'mi, ilet'si ). |
| the process of joining together or merging things, especially abstract ideas. |
| omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next) |
| a deliberate act of omission |
| Omission of a final or initial sound in pronunciation. |
| Omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable, as in scanning a verse. |
| The act or an instance of omitting something. |
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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. The word elision is frequently used in linguistic description of living languages, and deletion is often used in historical linguistics for a historical sound change. * 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. * In French, elisions are mandatory in certain contexts, as in C'est la vie (elided from *Ce est la vie). An example of historical elision in French that began at the phrasal level and became lexicalized is preposition de > d' in aujourd'hui 'today', now felt by native speakers to be one word, but d |