CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

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LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORIES

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What is deletion?
A
Replacing one sound for another e.g. pip for ship
B
The omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase.
C
Changing one consonant or vowel for another e.g. gog for dog
D
The omission of a word in a sentence,
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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. However, these terms are also used to refer more narrowly to cases where two words are run together by the omission of a final sound.

Detailed explanation-2: -In phonetics and phonology, elision is the omission of a sound (a phoneme) in speech. Elision is common in casual conversation. More specifically, elision may refer to the omission of an unstressed vowel, consonant, or syllable. This omission is often indicated in print by an apostrophe.

Detailed explanation-3: -Vowel deletion is a phonological process in which an unstressed /inverted e/ (schwa) vowel is deleted during pronunciation.

Detailed explanation-4: -Elision refers to the phonological process which omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase (Sheroz, 2013). Sometimes sounds are elided to make a word easier to pronounce.

Detailed explanation-5: -Definition: Consonant deletion occurs whenever a consonant in syllable-initial or syllable-final position is omitted. Comment: Consonants may simply be omitted from the beginning or ends of syllables.

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