wanna contraction
English edit
Etymology edit
From wanna (nominalised usage) + contraction.
Noun edit
wanna contraction (plural wanna contractions)
- (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.
Further reading edit
- Paul Warren (2012) Introducing Psycholinguistics, Cambridge University Press