prodelisionn.
/ˌprəʊdᵻˈlɪʒn/, U.S. /ˌproʊdəˈlɪʒ(ə)n/ Prosody.
Elision of the initial vowel of a word.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > unit of duration of speech sound > lengthening or shortening > contraction of two sounds into one > elision of initial vowel
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1888 Classical Rev. 2 250/1 Here of course the prodelision and subsequent elision of ε̆ρχε is hideous.
1906 Academy 17 Mar. 257/1 Creaking Ionic scazons disfigured..by prodelision and synizesis and crasis.
1933 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1931–2 32 They would point to the patent phenomena of adaptation or assimilation of the two sounds to one another..and also to the facts of elision, prodelision, and crasis (in the case of vowels), that is, of coalescence.
1968 W. S. Allen Vox Graeca iv. 96 Much rarer than elision is the process of ‘prodelision’ in which it is the short initial vowel of the second word that is lost after a final long vowel or diphthong.
1987 Lit. & Ling. Computing 2 86/1 The need to define a PW is one way to deal with the presence of elision and prodelision.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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