Presentation 1
Presentation 1
U
T 2 LOSS OF WEAK VOWEL AFTER P, T, K
L
AVOIDANCE OF COMPLEX
I 3
CONSONANT CLUSTERS
N
E LOSS OF FINAL V IN “OF” BEFORE
4
CONSONANTS
5 OTHER CASES
DEFINITION
• Pronunciation: [i'liʒn]
1. The omission of a sound or syllable when
speaking
2. The process of joining together or merging
things, especially abstract ideas: unease at the
elision of so many vital questions
3. The typical of rapid, casual speech; the process of
change in phoneme realizations produced by
changing the speed and casualness of speech is
caused gradation.
DEFINITION
• For example:
Him / him / / im /
Example:
• Potato / pə'teitəʊ / => / p'teitəʊ /
• Tomato / tə'mɑ:təʊ / => / t'mɑ:təʊ /
• Canary / kə'neəri / => /k'neəri /
AVOIDANCE OF COMPLEX
CONSONANT CLUSTERS
• It has been claimed that no normal English
speaker would ever pronounce all the
consonants, between the last two words of
the following.
• In clusters of three plosives or two plosives
plus a fricative, the middle plosive may
disappear, so that the following pronunciation
result.
AVOIDANCE OF COMPLEX
CONSONANT CLUSTERS
Example:
• Looked back / ‘lʊkt’bæk / => /
‘lʊk’bæk /
• Acts / ækts / => / æks /
• George the Sixth’s throne: /dʒɔːdʒ
ðə sikθs θrəʊn/ => /dʒɔːdʒ ðə
siksθrəʊn/
LOSS OF FINAL V IN “OF” BEFORE
CONSONANTS
Example:
• lots of them:
/ ’lɒts əv ðəm / => / ’lɒts ə ðəm /
• Waste of money:
/ ’weist əv 'mʌni/ => / ’weist ə 'mʌni/
LOSS OF FINAL V IN “OF” BEFORE
CONSONANTS
• These examples are typical of very casual
speech, and would be regarded as
substandard by conservative listeners.
• A more common case is where the vowel of
“of” is lost, leaving either “v” in a voiced
context ( e.g. “all of mine” => /ɔ:l v main/ )
or “f” in a voiceless context (e.g. “ best of
three” => / best f θri:/ )
OTHER CASES
1. Weak vowel + n, l or r becoming syllabic
consonants.
E.g. Tonight /tə'nait/ => /t'nait/
police /pə'li:s/ => /p’lis/
2. Contractions of grammatical words
• E.g. Had, did, would => / ‘d/
will, shall => / ‘ll/
Is => / ‘s/
OTHER CASES
Example:
3. When many consonants go together, elision
happens
A. /kə'rekt/
B. /kə'ret/
C. /k'rekt/
Let’s relax !
Q2: Choose the type of elision of “interest”
• A. Loss of the weak vowel after /p/, /t/,
/k/.
• B. Weak vowel +/n/, /l/ or /r/ becomes
syllabic consonants.
• C.Loss of final ‘v’ in ‘of’ before consonants
• D. Avoidance of complex consonant
clusters
/ 'intrəst/
Let’s relax !
Q3: Choose the type of elision of “scripts”
• A. Loss of the weak vowel after /p/, /t/, /k/.
• B. Weak vowel +/n/, /l/ or /r/ becomes syllabic
consonants.
• C.Loss of final ‘v’ in ‘of’ before consonants
• D. Avoidance of complex consonant clusters
/ skrips/
Let’s relax !
Q4: In elision, How is “desktop”
transcribed?
• A. ‘dɛsˌtɒp
B. ‘dɛskˌtɒp
C. ‘dɛsktˌtɒp
Let’s relax !
Q5: In elision, how is
“want to ” transcribed?
A. [ˈwɒntˌtʊ]
B. [ˈwɒntˌʊ]
C. [ˈwɒnˌtʊ]