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In linguistics 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. Sometimes sounds are elided to make a word easier to pronounce. The word ''elision'' is frequently used in linguistic description of living languages, and ''deletion'' is often used in historical linguistics for a historical sound change. In English as spoken by native speakers, elision comes naturally, and it is often described as "slurred" or "muted" sounds. Often, elision is deliberate. It is a common misconception that contractions automatically qualify as elided words, which comes from slack definitions: not all elided words are contractions and not all contractions are elided words (for example, 'going to' → 'gonna': an elision that is not a contraction; 'can not' → 'cannot': a contraction that is not an elision). In French, elision is mandatory in certain contexts, as in the clause ''フランス語:C'est la vie'' (elided from *''フランス語:Ce est la vie''). In Spanish, elision occurs less frequently but is common in certain dialects. It is never marked by an apostrophe in writing. Of particular interest is the word ''para'', which becomes ''pa''. Multiple words can be elided together, as in ''pa trabajar'' for ''para trabajar'' and ''pa delante'' or even ''pa lante'' for ''para adelante''. Elision likely occurred regularly in Latin, but was not written, except in inscriptions and comedy. Elision of a vowel before a word starting in a vowel is frequent in poetry, where the meter sometimes requires it. For example, the opening line of Catullus 3 is ''Lugete, O Veneres Cupidinesque'', but would be read as ''Lugeto Veneres Cupidinesque''. Some morphemes take the form of elision: see disfix. The opposite of elision is epenthesis, whereby sounds are inserted into a word to ease pronunciation. The omission of a word from a phrase or sentence is not elision but ellipsis, or elliptical construction. ==Types== In linguistics, elision is the deletion of a sound or sounds. When notating elision in phonological rules, the null sign marks the place where a sound has been deleted: * > Either all cases of a sound are deleted, or a sound is deleted in a limited number of cases. These cases can often be described with a phonological rule. Ecthlipsis (from ) in Latin poetry is the elision of a vowel and the letter before a word beginning with a vowel: *''ラテン語:Et mutam nequiquam adloquerer cinerem'' (Catullus 101) :''ラテン語:Et mutam nequiquadloquerer cinerem'' (pronunciation after elision) Syncope is the elision of vowels between consonants. apheresis is the elision of a sound at the beginning of a word (generally of an unstressed vowel). Apocope is the loss of a sound at the end of a word. * Latin ''ラテン語:tabula'' > Spanish ' (syncope) Elision is the final stage in lenition or consonant weakening. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「elision」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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