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VCE Stuff => VCE English Studies => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE English Language => Topic started by: aqple on March 17, 2014, 08:48:48 pm
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Just a tad confused over this. My teacher said they were contractions.
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Just a tad confused over this. My teacher said they were contractions.
They are elisions. Contractions (such as ‘cannot’) are set forms that have morphologized (can be identified as a meaningful unit), whereas elisions aren’t.
EDIT: Wrote "contractions" twice (in place of elisions at the end of the sentence). Fixed now.
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Oh right, thanks! :D
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Contractions (such as ‘cannot’) are set forms that have morphologized (can be identified as a meaningful unit), whereas contractions aren’t.
Are you sure about that?
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Gonna, lotta and outta are examples of elision- a phonological process (sounds run into each other for fast and fluent speech).
Contractions (more of a morphological process than a phonological one): you would generally talk about them when you're pertaining to written texts like those words with apostrophes like can't, won't, shouldn't
Hope this clears things up a bit! :)
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Are you sure about that?
http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Elision.html
Quote: "Contraction differs from elision in that contractions are set forms that have morphologized, but elisions are not."
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http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Elision.html
Quote: "Contraction differs from elision in that contractions are set forms that have morphologized, but elisions are not."
He is referring to you having written contractions twice
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He is referring to you having written contractions twice
Oh LMAO! Sorry, my stupid mistake!