Understanding Elision in Pronunciation
Learn about elision, a linguistic phenomenon where sounds are omitted to facilitate pronunciation without altering the word's meaning. Discover examples and rules of vowel omission and how it occurs in different languages like Korean. Understanding elision is crucial for improving listening skills.
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Elision means that a sound is omitted in a special situation. In other words, elision means a vowel or consonant sound is omitted (without changing the meaning of the word for the listener) to make pronunciation easier. Knowing about elision is very important for listening.
Elision occurs when speaking quickly and when speaking in informal situations. In the case of vowels, weak vowels are always the ones omitted and stressed vowels are always pronounced. Elision also occurs when the same vowel or consonant is repeated or when there are two sounds with similar places or similar manners of articulation.
[Korean has a somewhat similar custom. For example, ( ), ( ), ( ), ( ), ~ ( ) and ( ).]
Vowel Omission 1 An unstressed medial vowel is omitted when it appears after a stressed syllable.
company comp-ny family fam-ly veteran vet-ran chocolate choc-late every ev-ry mystery mys-try
history his-try vegetable veg-ta-ble violin vi-lin la-bo-ra-try / lab-ra-try laboratory interesting in-tres-ting miserable mis-ra-ble
generally gen-ra-lly aspirin as-prin different diff-rent favourite fav-rite restaurant res-trant
beverage bev-rage reasonable reas-na-ble emerald em-rald camera cam-ra easily eas-ly
Vowel Omission 2 There are cases where the weak vowel preceding the stressed syllable is omitted [or pronounced softly and quickly].
suppose spose correct crect parade prade police plice garage grage terrific trif-ic
direction drec-tion gorilla grill-a believe blieve barometer brom-e-ter veranda vran-da
Vowel Omission 3 There are cases of ia , io , iu being pronounced as ya , yo , yu .
Australia Aus-tra(l)-ya Asia As-ya piano pya-no civilian ci-vil-yan hypothermia hy-po-therm-ya nostalgia nos-tal-gya
Antonio An-ton-yo idiom id-yom audio aud-yo campion camp-yon behaviour be-hav-your million mill-yon
uranium u-ran-yum podium pod-yum aluminium al-u-min-yum lithium lith-yum medium med-yum opium op-yum
Consonant Omission 1 When a group of two or more consonants appears, one of the consonants [t, d, p] is omitted to simplify [the pronunciation of the] consonant cluster.
postpone pos-pone textbook tex-book exactly ex-ac-ly wristband wris-band mostly mos-ly softness sof-ness
postman pos-man restless res-less grandparents gran-pa-rents grandson gran-son sandbag san-bag handcrafted han-craf-ted
kindness kin-ness standby stan-by handcuff han-cuff pumpkin pum-kin empty em-ty
Consonant Omission 2 Omission of /t/ when it follows alveolar nasal /n/
twenty twen-y centre cen-re winter win-er plenty plen-y internet in-er-net
wanted wan-ed identify i-den-i-fy printout prin-out pentagon pen-a-gon Santa San-a
