What is flapping? flapping is battement
What is battement?
- That flaps or flap.
Qui bat ou rabat.
- An instance where one flaps.
Un cas où l’on bat des ailes.
- 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.
- Present participle of flap.
Participe présent du rapace.