Phonetics
Hi! Could you please tell me the rules of elision of consonats in rapid speech in phonetics? And what symbol do we have to use to indicate it? I mean the elision of /t/, /d/ and I don't know what others can be eliminated (?) (I don't know if eliminated is the correct word). I already understand the elision of schwa. But I need help on what consonants can be eliminated and when. Thank you in advance! Btw, I am studying RP English at school. And my native langauge is Spanish

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Hi Ailen,
I could hep you with that.
The best book for this is something I studied years ago.
American Accent Training.

I'd love to be able to help.

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Very interesting, Chris. Wikipedia doesn’t have any article linked under “reduced speech” but it does seem to be a broad topic. Here a link with a lot of examples. Hopefully it will be helpful to you, Ailen. https://tfcs.baruch.cuny.edu/reduced-speech/  I see Wikipedia covers the idea under elision.

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Search for "reduced speech."  It is a big area.

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