flapping-aletejant: meaning, definitions and translations

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What is flapping? flapping is aletejant

What is aletejant?

  • That flaps or flap.

    Aquestes solapes o solapes.

  • An instance where one flaps.

    Un cas en què una solapa.

  • A phonological process found in many dialects of English, especially American English and Canadian English, by which intervocalic /t/ and /d/ surface as the alveolar flap /ɾ/ before an unstressed syllable, so that words such as "metal" and "medal" are pronounced similarly or identically.

    Un procés fonològic que es troba en molts dialectes de l'anglès, especialment l'anglès americà i l'anglès canadenc, pel qual intervocàlic /t/ i /d/ apareixen com la solapa alveolar /ɾ/ abans d'una síl·laba sensetressar, de manera que paraules com "metall" i "medalla" es pronuncien de manera similar o idèntica.

  • Present participle of flap.

    Participi present de solapa.

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