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[53] [54] This goal, acting simultaneously with the child's initial inability to produce polysyllabic words, often results in weak-syllable deletion. The primary environment for weak-syllable deletion in polysyllabic words is word-initial, as deleting word-final or word-medial syllables would interfere with the penultimate stress pattern heard ...
Weak syllable deletion: omission of an unstressed syllable in the target word, e.g., [nænæ] for ‘banana’ - Final consonant deletion: omission of the final consonant in the target word, e.g., [pikʌ] for ‘because’ - Reduplication: production of two identical syllables based on one of the target word syllables, e.g., [baba] for ‘bottle’
Final consonant deletion is the nonstandard deletion of single consonants in syllable-final position occurring for some AAVE speakers [23] resulting in pronunciations like: bad - [bæː] con - [kɑ̃] foot - [fʊ] five - [faɪ] good - [ɡʊː] When final nasal consonants are deleted, the nasality is maintained on the preceding vowel.
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. [ 1 ]
Syncope (deletion) of vowels in every other interior unstressed syllable following the stress. If there are two remaining syllables after the stress, the first one loses its vowel; if there are four remaining syllables after the stress, the first and third lose their vowel.
The weak vowel merger is a phonemic merger of the unstressed /ɪ/ (sometimes written as /ɨ/) with /ə/ with in certain dialects of English. As a result of this merger the words rabbit and abbot rhyme. The kit split is a split of EME /ɪ/ found in South African English, where kit [kɪt] and bit [bət] do not rhyme.
As vowels, they played a role in the law of open syllables, which states that every syllable must end in a vowel. Old Church Slavonic , for example, had no closed syllables at all. Word-final yers, which were abundant, including in declensional patterns, were reduced in length to ultrashort, or "weak", variants (/ɪ̆/ and /ʊ̆/).
When a consonant cluster ending in a stop is followed by another consonant or cluster in the next syllable, the final stop in the first syllable is often elided. This may happen within words or across word boundaries. Examples of stops that will often be elided in this way include the [t] in postman and the [d] in cold cuts or band saw. [41]