{"id":1387,"date":"2011-08-20T13:14:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T12:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1387"},"modified":"2011-10-04T18:01:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T17:01:56","slug":"elision","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1387","title":{"rendered":":Elision:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pronunciation <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u026a\u02c8l\u026a\u0292n<\/strong><\/span>, adj. <em>elided <\/em><span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u026a\u02c8la\u026ad\u0259d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The deletion of a sound. There are two categories of elision:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>synchronic<\/strong>, when a sound may be elided from a word or phrase in present day speech. An example of this from English is the phrase <em>next month<\/em>, which may be pronounced without elision: <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>nekst m\u028cn\u03b8<\/strong><\/span> or with the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=237\">alveolar<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=504\">plosive<\/a> elided: <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>neks m\u028cn\u03b8<\/strong><\/span>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>diachronic<\/strong>, where a sound which used to occur in a word or phrase is now permanently deleted. An example of this from English is the word <em>listen<\/em>, which is no longer pronounced with the alveolar plosive which the spelling suggests.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2307\">pseudo-elision<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pronunciation \u026a\u02c8l\u026a\u0292n, adj. elided \u026a\u02c8la\u026ad\u0259d The deletion of a sound. There are two categories of elision: synchronic, when a sound may be elided from a word or phrase in present day speech. An example of this from English is the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1387\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":172,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1387"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1387\/revisions\/2304"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}