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Title: Whats the difference??????!!!!!!
Post by: zibb3r on March 13, 2012, 08:21:02 pm

Between elision and reduction???

Thanks

Title: Re: Whats the difference??????!!!!!!
Post by: binders on March 13, 2012, 08:36:38 pm

do you mean Reduction of vowels or reduction of words into shorter words?

reduction of vowels would be like when a vowel becomes unstressed when a word changes.
eg., endoscope -> endoscopy.
       [ˈɛndəskəʊp] -> ɛnˈdɒskəpi
notice how the əʊ becomes ə when the scope syllable becomes unstressed?
another example would be with 'the'. when unstressed, the vowel gets reduced.
   the ðɪ: -> ðə

an elision is when a sound is removed from a word in running speech.
eg., probably -> pronounced 'probly'   = b elided
should have (should ov) -> shoulda    = f (v) elided
you can see how that differs from the phonological sense of reduction - with reduction the sound is still there, but changed, with elision the sound is missing.

i guess a reduction with respect to words is when you have phone for telephone, tele for television, doc for doctor, prof for professor etc.

Title: Re: Whats the difference??????!!!!!!
Post by: teacher28 on March 16, 2012, 08:16:13 am

Is that a copy and paste or do you have a font for the phonetic alphabet? If so where did you get it? :)

Title: Re: Whats the difference??????!!!!!!
Post by: binders on March 17, 2012, 09:50:14 am

It's just a font that has the phonetic alphabet. you can get them from various places on the web, eg., SIL
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=DoulosSILfont

or the other options is, yeah, copy and past from an IPA chart.

SIL also has keyboard layouts for inputing the ipa more easily:
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=UniIPAKeyboard

or you can use this site to type them, and copy & paste them into your docs
http://ipa.typeit.org/full/