What do you call this reduction in linguistics?

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Hi every bodyI have a questionYesterday my English teacher was talking about some reductions in pronunciationFor example give me ==&gt; gimmegot to ==&gt; gotta  I want to know what it is called in linguistics (its emergency)By the wayPlease introduce your source

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

Gimme, gotta, wanna, gonna, etc are just orthographic representations of reductions/contractions, as far as I know.

Abolfazl Moradpoor · Answer

Dear Mister Micawber

My teacher said other examples too

For example

Low and order is pronounced in this way that we pronunce an extra r between low and and and pronounce and in this way: (Shwa) ?n

I want to know this action in pronunciation is called again orthographic representations of reductions/contractions or not ?

If not then what it is called?

thanks

Zerox · Answer

Inserting an "r" sound between some word-final and word-initial vowel sounds, such as in law and order so that it comes as lawr and(schwa+n) order, is known as intrusive 'r'. It's used by some RP speakers. It is not so common in American English.

Abolfazl Moradpoor · Answer

Thanks Zerox

After your answer I searched for intrusive 'r' in google and found some articles

I have one more question

In the following sentences we don’t pronounce final t in not, cant and don't

I'm not good at filing and typing

I don’t like doing sales work

I can't stand working from nine to five

I want to know what this reduction in pronunciation is called in linguistics?

thanks

Mister Micawber · Answer

I'm not good at filing and typing

I don’t like doing sales work

I can't stand working from nine to five

A dropped-t, I would say, for #2 and #3-- I would call #1 a stopped-t because I haven't heard the t elided in that context; the sound production for a full, aspirated t is just incomplete.

Kooyeen · Answer

Hi,
here's how I call that:

Abolfazl Moradpoor
1 - I'm not good at filing and typing

2 - I don’t like doing sales work

3 - I can't stand working from nine to five

#1 - Unreleased T, or stopped T, or glottal stop. - You can't take it away completely, at least in "general American".
#2 and #3 - Silent T after N - Many Americans don't pronounce T's after N's in words like twenty (twenny), center (cenner), international (innernational), aren't I (are an eye), etc.

Anonymous · Answer

For your information those shortened forms of words are called contractions.

What do you call this reduction in linguistics?

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