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Does "Elision" exist in Chilean Spanish?


We can find instances of elision in Chilean Spanish:

* The elision of the sound /s/ al the final of the syllable in colloquial speaking. The aspiration occurs only in front of a consonant as in this cases: 

Las casas ---> lah casa.
Los amigos ---> loh amigo.

* Elision also occurs with the sound /d/, at the end of the word. It happens in common Chilean spanish, and the intervocalic is elided only in colloquial speaking:

la universidad > la universidá > la universiá.

And finally, elision is produced with these intervocalic sounds: /b/ - /v/.

Example: la universidad > la uniersiá.

We clarify that this only occurs in colloquial speaking.


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