� 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)

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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)

� Vowel:- initial: scholar, school, state- medial: evening, Gloucester /"glQst@/- final: tune, time, name

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� Consonant:- initial: hour, write, knock- medial: half, climbing- final: lamb, hymn /hIm/

� It mainly affects /I, U, /I, U, /I, U, /I, U, @ @ @ @ / when preceded and followed by C in unaccented sylls.

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C in unaccented sylls.

� The most frequent V elisions occur when the following C is /r, n, l /

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