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Handayani
Indria Fatma SariIzmi Istiqomah
Nadia June Kartika
SartikaSheiya Anisa
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Elision isvery simply the omission of certainsounds (such as a
vowel, a consonant, or a wholesyllable) in a word or phrase.
An elision removes a letter or letters in a word in orderto
reduce the number of syllables or to blend wordstogether. The
missing letter is usually replaced with anapostrophe.
In certain circumstances a phoneme may be
released as ZERO, or have ZEROREALIZATION or be DELETED.
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Elision of consonantElision of consonant often occurs in order
tosimplify consonant clusters. The consonants elidedare most
typically plosives and fricatives, as in old
man /ld mn/, when it pronounced /lmn/, clothes /klz/, when I
pronounced/klz/
Elision of vowelElision of vowel can occur in unstressed
syllablesof polysyllabic words, most typicallu just before orafter
stressed syllable, and after one of the fortisplosive /p,t,k. Thrn
/n,l,r/
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Elision of whole syllable
Elision of whole syllable s can occur when thesyllables are
unstressed, most typically just
before or after a stressed syllable, especiallywhen the elided
syllable consonant that isrepeated in the following syllable.
This can be illustrated by the
words library/laib-re-ri/, when it ispronounced without the
middle syllable as[laibri]
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Elision happens mostly in songs, in poetry, intheatrical plays,
in order to maintain a
particular rhythm.
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Elision is typical of rapid, casual speech.
Producing elisions is something which foreign
learners do not need to learn to do, but it isimportant for them
to be aware that whennative speakers of English talk to each
other,quite a number of phonemes that the foreignermight expect to
hear are not actuallypronounced
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Loss of week vowel after p, t, k
examples:
potato phi'tet phitet
today thi'de thide
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Weak vowel + n, l, or r becomes syllabic
examples:
tonight t'nat tnat
Correct k'rekt krekt
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Alveolar consonants /t/ and /d/ whensandwiched between two
consonants
(CONS t/d CONS)
example:
The next day nekstde /neksde/
Hold the dog! hld dg / hldg/
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Avoidance of complex consonant cluster
example:
George the sixths throne
d:d skss rn
d:d sksrn
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Loss of final v in of before consonant
example:
waste of money
westvmn west mn
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Elision of not
The phoneme /t/ is a fundamental part of the
negative particlenot
. Consider the negative ofcan if followed by a consonant the /t/
may
easily disappear and the only difference between
the positive and the negative is a different, longer
vowel sound in the second:
+ I can speak /ai kn spi:k/
- I cant speak /a knt spk/ /ai ka:nspi:k/
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One Elision
a beautiful girl
And how many stripes on yours
Two Elisions
- diamond shaped patch
- what shall we do next go down
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Three Elisions
The top of the bottle is projecting outwards into the
room
