Withgott effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A phenomenon relating to the pronunciation of stops in American English, whereby words appear to be chunked into pronunciation units, based on their morphology, which may block flapping.

Word forms

Withgott effect

Etymology

Observed by M. M. Withgott in a 1982 dissertation.

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