lenition
suomi-englanti sanakirjalenition englanniksi
A weakening of articulation causing a consonant to become lenis (soft).
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(cot)
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2008, Krzysztof Jaskula, ''Celtic'', Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho, Tobias Scheer, Philippe Ségéral (editors), ''Lenition and Fortition'', Studies in Generative Grammar: 99, page 347,
- As for Goidelic languages, the situation is clearer because Lenition III in this subfamily consisted in losing the same property as the first two lenitions, namely stopness.
2011, Naomi Gurevich, ''66: Lenition'', Marc van Oostendorp, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth V. Hume, Keren Rice (editors), ''The Blackwell Companion to Phonology'', Volume III: Phonological Processes, page 1573,
- Five general patterns of lenitions – all based to some extent on empirical data – are identified.