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Questions for Discussion 
 
 
1.
What is accommodation? 
2.
How many types of accommodation do you know? Give your own example. 
3.
What phenomenon is called “Elision”? Give an example of it. 
4.
What is deletion?
5.
What phenomenon is called dissimilation? 
6.
Which process is called flapping? 

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SELF
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TEST 
Here are various compounds and phrases. In most of them elision of /d/ or /t/ is 
possible. See how quickly you can identify the ones where is not possible. 
software 
 
compact disc
hardware 
landmine 
 
postman 
 
loud speaker 
sound check
stand by 
 
child birth 
handcuffs 
 
smart card 
 
wild fire 
word perfect
old boy
 
best man 
sandbag 
 
east bound 
 
turned off 
Unit 6. Strong and Weak Forms. Reduction 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Strong and Weak Forms
 
 
In English there are certain words, which have two forms of pronunciation: 
(1)
Strong or full form 
(2)
Weak or reduced form 
These words include form-words and the following pronouns: personal, possessive, 
reflexive and the indefinite pronoun “some” denoting indefinite quantity. 
These words have strong or full forms when they are stressed.
 
He will do it. 
(and nobody else)

[ 
`
hi: l
ˌ
du: 
ɪ
t] 
Each of these words usually has more than one reduced form used in unstressed 
positions.