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Elision

In linguistics, an elision or deletion is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase. However, these terms are also used to refer more narrowly to cases where two words are run together by the omission of a final sound. An example is the elision of word-final /t/ in English if it is preceded…

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Historical elisions

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Elision in poetry

Deletion

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Elision

Nodes95
Edges94
Triples123
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.021053
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Elision

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related to Elision in poetry · 16
Elision → Catullus, Country Churchyard, Elegy Written, Elisions, English, For, Frequently, It, Latin, Lugete, Lugeto Veneres Cupidinesque, Multiple, Th, There, Thomas Gray, Veneres Cupidinesque
related to Citation forms and contextual forms · 13
Elision → For, French, However, If, In, It, Many, More, Portuguese, Spanish, The, This, Whether
related to Latin · 11
Elision → Around, For, Greek, However, In, It, Later, Latin, Silver Age, Virgil's Aeneid, Words
related to Japanese · 10
Elision → English, French, Gender, However, In, It, Japanese, Satsuma-ben, Some, The
related to Urdu · 10
Elision → Although, Commonly, In, In Pakistan, Latin, Most, Nastaleeq, Roman Urdu, Some, Urdu
related to Contractions · 8
Elision → Contractions, English, English RP, French, In, Latin, This, Written Greek
related to Welsh · 8
Elision → Ble, Do, Mae'r, Ry, The, Welsh, Where, Ydych
related to Deletion · 7
Elision → An, English RP, Generative, Giegerich, If, The, When
related to English · 7
Elision → American, English, Examples, However, In, Most, This
related to Icelandic · 7
Elision → Another, English, For, Icelandic, The, There, What

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vowel word words english consonant common example pronounced latin examples form used also final spanish french contraction may speech line

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Elisionis afinal stage in lenition or consonant weakening0.90text
Elisionis aloss of /θ/ from the start of þetta0.90text
the following from Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Grayinstance ofMultiple examples can be seen in lines0.80text
published in 1751instance ofMultiple examples can be seen in lines0.80text
Elisionrelated to Citation forms and contextual formsThis0.60section
Elisionrelated to Citation forms and contextual formsHowever0.60section
Elisionrelated to Citation forms and contextual formsMany0.60section
Elisionrelated to Citation forms and contextual formsIn0.60section
Elisionrelated to Citation forms and contextual formsFor0.60section
Elisionrelated to Citation forms and contextual formsSpanish0.60section
Elisionrelated to Citation forms and contextual formsMore0.60section
Elisionrelated to Citation forms and contextual formsThe0.60section

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