wanna contraction

English

Etymology

From wanna (nominalised usage) +‎ contraction.

Noun

wanna contraction (plural wanna contractions)

1. (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

• Paul Warren (2012) Introducing Psycholinguistics, Cambridge University Press