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elision
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Elision
In
linguistics
,
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. Sometimes sounds are elided to make a word easier to pronounce. The word
elision
is frequently used in
linguistic description of living languages
, and
deletion
is often used in
historical linguistics
for a historical
sound change
.
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