phonetic erosion

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'I am going to' → 'I'm gonna' → 'I'm 'onna' → 'Imma'

Noun

phonetic erosion (uncountable)

  1. (phonetics, phonology) The loss of phonemes from a spoken word (or of words in a phrase) over time, sometimes as a result of grammaticalization.

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