Linking vs Elision - What's the difference?
linking | elision |
Present participle of link.
:The yard manager is linking the sections of the train together.
Serving to connect other things together.
:Conjunctions frequently function as linking words in a sentence.
linkage
* 1986 , Douglas Pulleyblank, Tone in Lexical Phonology (page 11)
The deliberate omission of something.
The omission of a letter or syllable between two words; sometimes marked with an apostrophe.
As nouns the difference between linking and elision
is that linking is linkage while elision is the deliberate omission of something.As a verb linking
is present participle of link.As an adjective linking
is serving to connect other things together.linking
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(head)Adjective
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(en noun)- I will assume that multiple linkings of tones to a single tone-bearing unit come about only by language-specific rules.
