Abstract
This study investigates speech sound omission by native speakers of Standard British English and Central Kurdish. It aims to explore how a sound or sounds can be dropped in a spoken language to simplify it. The study compares English and Kurdish to determine similar and dissimilar features related to the elision of sounds. Additionally, the study attempts to ascertain the reasons for omitting of a sound or sounds in each language.
Highlights
In some ordinal numbers, /θ/ is not elided, but instead, there is a possibility to elide the preceding consonant as in the following examples:
This study investigates speech sound omission by native speakers of Standard British English and Central Kurdish
The following conclusions have been made from the study related to different types of elision in English and Kurdish: 1) Elision is useful for simplifying complex cluster of consonant sounds in both onset and coda
Summary
Vowels refer to those sounds which are produced without any air restriction of the airflow (Finch, 2000, p. 73). In English, schwa /ə/ is the most frequent vowel sound. It occurs in weak and unstressed syllables The elision of a vowel is associated with a weak and unstressed syllable. 95−96), the elision of /ə/ occurs in unstressed syllables of polysyllabic words, before or after a stressed syllable, and after one of the plosives, /p, t, k/. In the following words /ə/ is elided, and there will be an aspiration of the release of air in the articulation of the preceding plosive. Elision of /ə/ is common whenever it is followed by /l/, /n/ or /r/. 238) points out that elision of /i/ can be found in English, but it is less common than /ə/ Gimson (1970, p. 238) points out that elision of /i/ can be found in English, but it is less common than /ə/
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