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wanna_contraction

wanna contraction

English

Noun

wanna contraction (plural wanna contractions)

  1. (linguistics) A style of contraction (such as want to into wanna, or going to into gonna) that may or may not be possible depending on the sense of to.

References

  • Paul Warren, Introducing Psycholinguistics (Cambridge University Press).