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Elision is the dropping of sounds in quick, colloquial speech due to the principle of efficiency. It has occurred historically in language development, such as the sounds dropped in "Christmas" and "listen." Contextual elision occurs when certain words are said together, like "first class." Word-internal elision includes dropping vowels. Exceptions include word-internal dropping of consonants and dropping consonants at word boundaries. The "/h/" sound is commonly elided after consonants or in weak forms lik
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- Mile Paredes
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