Foreign Speakers' Attitudes Toward Consonant Elisions

Abstract: 5 pages in length. Foreign speakers to the English language are faced with quite a daunting task when it comes to silent letters, words that have no phonetic properties and every other unusual nuance incorporated into the language; when faced with consonant elisions, such as "gonna" instead of "going to," "wanna" instead of "want to" and "innit" instead of "isn't it," their attitudes reflect an increasing intolerance and confusion over their inability to grasp this particular type of slang. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

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Catagory: General

Subcatagory: Communications, Media, Theory, Etc

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