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- Lenition abstract "In linguistics, lenition is a kind of sound change that alters consonants, making them more sonorous (vowel-like). The word lenition itself means \"softening\" or \"weakening\" (from Latin lenis = weak). Lenition can happen both synchronically (i.e. within a language at a particular point in time) and diachronically (i.e. as a language changes over time). Lenition can involve such changes as making a consonant more sonorous, causing a consonant to lose its place of articulation (a phenomenon called debuccalization, which turns a consonant into a glottal consonant like [h] or [ʔ]), or even causing a consonant to disappear entirely.An example of synchronic lenition in English is found in flapping in some dialects: the /t/ of a word like wait [weɪt] becomes the more sonorous [ɾ] in the related form waiting [ˈweɪɾɪŋ]. Some dialects of Spanish show debuccalization of /s/ to [h] at the end of a syllable, so that a word like estamos \"we are\" is pronounced [ehˈtamoh]. An example of diachronic lenition can be found in the Romance languages, where the /t/ of Latin patrem (\"father\", accusative) becomes [d] in Italian padre and [ð̞] in Spanish padre, while in French père and Portuguese pai it has disappeared completely. Along with assimilation, lenition is one of the primary sources of phonological change of languages.In some languages, lenition has been grammaticalized into a consonant mutation, which means it is no longer triggered by its phonological environment but is now governed by its syntactic or morphological environment. For example, in Welsh, the word cath \"cat\" begins with the sound /k/, but after the definite article y, the /k/ changes to [ɡ]: \"the cat\" in Welsh is y gath. This was historically due to intervocalic lenition, but in the plural, lenition does not happen, so \"the cats\" is y cathod, not *y gathod. The change of /k/ to [ɡ] in y gath is thus caused by the syntax of the phrase, not by the phonological position of the consonant /k/.The opposite of lenition, fortition, a sound change that makes a consonant \"stronger\", is less common.".
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- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Accusative_case.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink American_English.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Apophony.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Approximant_consonant.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Article_(grammar).
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Assibilation.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Assimilation_(linguistics).
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Back_vowel.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Begadkefat.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink British_English.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Brittonic_languages.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Canadian_English.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Category:Celtic_languages.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Category:Linguistic_morphology.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Category:Phonology.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Celtic_languages.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Chain_shift.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Chroneme.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Classical_Gaelic.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Consonant.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Consonant_mutation.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Consonant_voicing_and_devoicing.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Copula_(linguistics).
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Coronal_consonant.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Debuccalization.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Dental_consonant.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Diphthong.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Dot_(diacritic).
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Ejective_consonant.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Elision.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Evolutionary_linguistics.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Final-obstruent_devoicing.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Finnic_languages.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Finnish_language.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Flap_consonant.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Flapping.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Florence.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Fortition.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink French_language.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Gaelic_type.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Gemination.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Germanic_languages.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Germanic_spirant_law.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Glottal_consonant.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Glottalic_consonant.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Glottalization.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Goidelic_languages.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Grammaticalization.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Greater-than_sign.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Grimms_law.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink High_German_consonant_shift.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Historical_linguistics.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Homorganic_consonants.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Irish_orthography.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Italian_language.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Japanese_language.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink L-vocalization.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Labial_consonant.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Latin.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Linguistics.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Manner_of_articulation.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Manx_language.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Markedness.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Middle_Irish.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Monophthong.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Monophthongization.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Morphology_(linguistics).
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Nasalization.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Old_Irish.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Palatalization_(sound_change).
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Phonological_change.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Phonology.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Place_of_articulation.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Primitive_Irish.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Productivity_(linguistics).
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Proto-Celtic_language.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Rendaku.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Romance_languages.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Sami_languages.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Sandhi.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Sardinian_language.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Scottish_Gaelic.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Secondary_articulation.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Sgian-dubh.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Sonorant.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Sonority_hierarchy.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Sound_change.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Spanish_language.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Syllable.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Synchrony_and_diachrony.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Syntax.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Trill_consonant.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Tuscan_gorgia.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Tuscany.
- Lenition wikiPageWikiLink Velar_consonant.