velar pinch

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

Noun

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.
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