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In certain circumstances sounds disappear, a phoneme
may be realised as zero or have zero realisation or be
deleted. (Roach, 2000: 140)
The “missing out” of a consonant or vowel, or both, that
would be present in the slow colloquial pronunciation of
a word in isolation. (Brown, 1978: 60-1)
A type of economy of articulation that consists of omitting
either a vowel or a consonant. The omission of sounds is
known as elision. (Ortiz Lira, 1986: 77)
A process of reduction including loss of phonemes
(Gimson, 2001: 235)

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Vowel:
- initial: scholar, school, state
- medial: evening, Gloucester
- final: tune, time, name
Consonant:
- initial: hour, write, knock
- medial: half, climbing
- final: lamb, hymn /

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It mainly
when preceded and followed by
C in unaccented sylls.
The most frequent V elisions occur when
the following C is

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