In French, elision (élision) is the suppression of a final unstressed vowel (usually /ə/) immediately before another word beginning with a vowel or a silent...

In linguistics, an 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....

eliding, elisions, or élision in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Elision is the omission of one or more sounds in a word or phrase. Elision may also...

examples, see Trait d'union.) Elision (French) French phonology French braille French manual alphabet Circumflex in French French heteronyms, words spelled...

d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic...

Varieties of the French language are spoken in France and around the world. The Francophones of France generally use Metropolitan French[citation needed]...

A French creole, or French-based creole language, is a creole for which French is the lexifier. Most often this lexifier is not modern French but rather...

m', t', s', l', and l', respectively, before a vowel or mute h. See Elision (French). The pronoun il and its forms refer to males (like English "he"),...

Standard French and the use of -ont in for all verbs. The elision that is common in many aspects of French is accelerated in Louisiana French with the...

"many") quelque(s) ("some") the cardinal numbers ("1, 2, 3...") See Elision (French) The article can be exempt in several cases when using the passive...

pronounced unless they are followed by a word beginning with a vowel; elision, in which certain instances of /ə/ (schwa) are elided (such as when final...

Standard French (in French: le français standard, le français normé, le français neutre 'Neutral French' or le français international 'International French')...

African French (French: français africain) is the generic name of the varieties of the French language spoken by an estimated 167 million people in Africa...

remain in French after the twelfth century (it can be found in words like (tu) chantes or doux), but which was protected from complete elision when the...

of (potential) elision in 1935. grand'mère → grand-mère (grandmother) Since the 1970s, though, calls for the modernisation of French orthography have...

changes have been: The loss of almost all final consonants. The occasional elision of final /ə/, which caused many newly-final consonants. The loss of the...

Acadian French (French: français acadien, acadjonne) is a variety of French spoken by Acadians, mostly in the region of Acadia, Canada. Acadian French has...

imitation of French practice. Introduced by Geoffroy Tory (1529), the apostrophe was used in place of a vowel letter to indicate elision (as in l'heure...

(2005). "Elision". Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192806376. elision. Ayoun, Dalila (2007). French Applied...

grammatical survey of French written in Latin, the book relies heavily on the comparison of ancient languages to his contemporary French and explained the...

the direct object of the clause's verb, que (or qu' before a vowel; see elision) is ordinarily used: « la bicyclette qu'il a volée » ("the bicycle that...

French grammar is the set of rules by which the French language creates statements, questions and commands. In many respects, it is quite similar to that...

French conjugation is the variation in the endings of French verbs (inflections) depending on the person (I, you, we, etc), tense (present, future, etc...

The ELISION Ensemble (often referred to as simply ELISION) is a chamber ensemble specialising in contemporary classical music, concentrating on the creation...

elision of /ə/ is not exclusive to Quebec, and the phenomenon is also seen in other dialects. One extreme instance of assimilation in Quebec French is...

and finds that 100% of /i/ (from French schwa) are deleted before French-derived vowel-initial nouns. However, elision does not occur before Cree vowel-initial...

Influence of French on English Language policy in France List of French words of Germanic origin Old Frankish Old French Reforms of French orthography...

opposite process, where one or more sounds are removed, is referred to as elision. The word epenthesis comes from epi- 'in addition to' and en- 'in' and...

though it is not normally aspirated phonetically), and does not allow elision or liaison. For example, in le homard ('the lobster') the article le remains...

of poetic licence. Hiatus may be avoided by elision of a final vowel, occasionally prodelision (elision of initial vowel), synizesis (pronunciation of...