%0 Journal Article %J Съпоставително езикознание / Сопоставительное языкознание / Contrastive linguistics %D 1991 %T Влияние на фрикативните съгласни върху сандхиалната елизия на маркера за минало време в английския език %A Андреева, Райна %X The article presents an experimental study of the influence of the voiceless fricatives [s, f, S] on the sandhi elision of [t] in the past tense of English regular verbs. The results of the experiment show that such elision is very frequent. In most of the cases (over 80%) the past tense marker is elided and the pronunciation of the past tense verb form is homonymous with that of the present tense form. Since such elision affects the perception of the past tense by Bulgarian learners, the experimental results should be taken into account when teaching English to Bulgarians. %B Съпоставително езикознание / Сопоставительное языкознание / Contrastive linguistics %V 16 %P 9–14 %G bul %N 1 %0 Journal Article %J Съпоставително езикознание / Сопоставительное языкознание / Contrastive linguistics %D 1989 %T Сандхиална елизия в английския език и перцепцията на миналото време от българи %A Андреева, Райна %X The article presents an experimental study of the perception of past tense regular verbs by Bulgarians learning English in cases of sandhi elision of the marker. The experiment was carried out at two levels (advanced and beginning) in a total of six groups, with three students at every level. The results, subjected to a three-factor dispersion analysis at the Laboratory of Experimental Linguistics at the Institute for Foreign Students, show that the percentage of the correctly determined verb forms is lower in cases of marker elision than in cases of its pronunciation. %B Съпоставително езикознание / Сопоставительное языкознание / Contrastive linguistics %V 14 %P 12–17 %G bul %N 6