Are "gonna" "lotta" "outta" examples of elision?

[aqple]

Just a tad confused over this. My teacher said they were contractions.

[alchemy]

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.

[aqple]

Oh right, thanks! 

[hairychinesekid]

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?

[ealam2]

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!

[alchemy]

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."

[maurlock]

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

[alchemy]

He is referring to you having written contractions twice

Oh LMAO! Sorry, my stupid mistake!