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Examples of elision
elision
In modern printings of Ancient Greek, apostrophes are also used to mark elision.
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Elision is found in the Ulster dialect of Irish, particularly in final position.
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An example of deliberate elision occurs in Latin poetry as a stylistic device.
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However, unlike French or English, Japanese does not often show elision in writing.
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They are categorised into classes based on the phoneme where elision occurs.
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Elision is extremely common in the pronunciation of the Japanese language.
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Some nonstandard dialects, such as Satsuma-ben, are known for their extensive elision.
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Such vowel elision in connected speech is found in the Sashti Christian dialect as well.
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They are categorised into different classes based on the phoneme which undergoes elision.
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- Omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)
- Exception: a deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news"
- Elision is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase, producing a result that is easier for the speaker to pronounce. Sometimes, sounds may be elided for euphonic effect.
- In French, elision refers to the suppression of a final unstressed vowel (usually) immediately before another word beginning with a vowel. The term also refers to the orthographic convention by which the deletion of a vowel is reflected in writing, and indicated with an apostrophe.
- In the analysis of 18th- and 19th-century Western music, an elision, overlap, or rather reinterpretation (Umdeutung), is the perception, after the fact, of a (metrically weak) cadential chord at the end of one phrase as the (metrically strong) initial chord of the next phrase. ...
- The deliberate omission of something; The omission of a letter or syllable between two words; sometimes marked with an apostrophe
- (Elided) Used to describe a compound feature, e.g. an entablature, with some elements omitted or combined.
- (verb form, elide): (1) In poetry, when the poet takes a word that ends in a vowel, and a following word that begins with a vowel, and blurs them together to create a single syllable, the result is an elision. Contrast with synaeresis, syncope, and acephalous lines. ...
- Omission of a consonant (e.g., "ere" for "ever") or a vowel (e.g., "tother" for "the other"), usually to achieve a metrical effect.
