velar pinch

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English

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A spectrogram of the English word "maggot", with a velar pinch highlighted in green

Noun

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velar pinch (plural velar pinches)

  1. (phonetics) The "pinch" that occurs between the second and third formants of vowels immediately before and after velar stops.