The perception of gonna and gotta – a study of emancipation in progress
This is an experiment the perceptual differences between full and contractedsemi-modals in English, i.e. the distinction of going to vs gonna and (HAVE) gotto vs gotta. It is a listen-and-repeat experiment and is informed by the findingsof a corpus study of the use of these forms in American English (AmE). It thusaims to integrate the social/variational and the cognitive sides of the phenomenon.
