Etymology

Withgott effect

Today it means: 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. Full definition →

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

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