0 the fact of not pronouncing a particular sound in a word
I found the half-forgotten Southern intonations and elisions as pleasing to my ear as they had formerly been.
On the whole, he left you dubious until the moment when, from pure nervousness, his speech went wild, even suffering that slight elision of the aspirate observed by some of them.
She scarcely sounded the t in Kentucky, since she also was of the South, where the languid air tends to produce elisions.
The "extract" in question consists of two short paragraphs only, printed, without any indication of important elisions, in each of the paragraphs.
This important shade of meaning may be given, I think, by the possessive u which originally belonged in the phrase, but suffered elision.
Listening input is characterised by features such as elision and the placement of stress and intonation.
Features of connected speech are dealt with very brie-y, covering assimilation, elision and vowel reduction.
Regarding metalinguistics, phoneme segmentation (elision) and phoneme blending were difficult tasks.
