Clitic words

In English morphology and phonology, a clitic is a word or part of a word that is structurally dependent on a neighboring word (its host) and cannot stand on its own.

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A clitic is said to be "phonologically bound," which means that it's pronounced, with very little emphasis, as if it were affixed to an adjacent word. 

Clitics are usually weak forms of functional elements such as auxiliaries, determiners, particles, and pronouns.

Examples and Observations of Clitics

"Certain tensed forms of auxiliary verbs have, in addition to their weak forms, clitic versions, which merge phonologically with an adjacent word, their host.

Thus, we've is pronounced like weave, and he'll like heel, while I'm rhymes with time, and so on. .

Clitic examples

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"The clitic forms of am, have, and will consist of a single consonant: /m, v, l/. In the case of are, it is not possible to give a satisfactory representation for the clitic itself, as the host + clitic combination may not be phonologically divisible into two corresponding parts.

For example,

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