Dutch Linguistics
   

Glossary - E

Elision - when a sound is not pronounced because of its phonetic surroundings
‘lesson’ is pronounced ‘lesn’, ‘cup of tea’ becomes ‘cuppa tea’
‘ik heb ‘m’ becomes ‘kep ‘m’, ‘heb je het?’ becomes ‘hep jut?’

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