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6. Adaptation. Elision.

**Adaptation (accommodation) is the influence of a vowel upon a consonant or vice versa.** The accommodated sound doesn't change its main phonemic features

Examples:1. A rounded vowel influences the preceding consonant and makes it labialized. E.g. *two, cool, loop.*

2. A fully back vowel is slightly advanced after [j]. E.g. *beauty.*

3. A vowel is replaced by its slightly more open variant before dark [ɫ]. E.g. *belt* [beɫt].

**Elision is the omission of sounds in rapid speech.** It takes place within words as well as at their boundaries. E.g. *phonetics* [fəˈnetɪks], *all right* [ɔːˈraɪt].