Elision

The elision (Latin ēlīdere, knock out ',' push out ') or the repayment referred to the omission of one or more usually unstressed sounds. In the orthography it is sometimes marked by an apostrophe.

Phonology

For economic reasons, spoke unaccented sounds are often omitted when speaking. An example in English is the e - schwa, ie the unaccented e of the last syllable of the word (eg, " I give " instead of " I give "). Even whole syllables and stressed syllables can be elided even (eg "ne" instead of " a ").

Elision can lead to sound change. An example is girl emerged from Mägdchen.

The sound change is reflected first in the colloquial forms, eg, colloquially nich (For not linguistically ), is ( for ) or has ( for you ). A sentence like " Have you ever a Euro? " Is used colloquially to " Did d' mal'n Euro? " Or " Has'ma'n Euro? ".

In some languages, such as Italian or French elision often affects unstressed vowels, which are repaid to avoid a hiatus. , Deleted vowel is marked by an apostrophe (eg Italian l' amico for lo amico, nessun'altra for nessuna altra ). In French slang, there are elisions also before consonants: je m'appelle Marc will j'suis to j'm'appelle Marc, is je suis.

Should not be confused with the elision of apocope ( troncamento in Italian ). They differ in that the apocope affect whole syllables and can be done before a consonant (eg, un gran grande paese paese for un ).

Metrics

In poetry, the elision is used as a stylistic device to reduce the number of syllables in a verse and maintain the meter.

• " The I called the spirits, / I 'll not go now " (Goethe, The Sorcerer's Apprentice )
• " Lure you by your own face / not forth into eternal dew? " (Goethe, The Fisherman )

In Latin poetry, a hiatus is often avoided by elision. A hiatus is usually the meeting of two vowels of the syllable or word boundary. A Hiatvermeidung can also occur when the leading word auslautet on m:

• Horrendum informe > horrendinforme
• Quantum erat > quanterat