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Italy has a
number of lenitions, the most
widespread of
which is the
deaffrication of /t͡ʃ/ to [ʃ]
between vowels: post-pausal cena [ˈt͡ʃeːna] 'dinner'...
- they were homorganic. The
first step away from that
system was the
deaffrication of /d͡z̪/ in the
first quarter of the 16th century.
Because of a differing...
- The
lenition tendency of
palatalized consonants (by ****ibilation and
deaffrication) is important.
According to some analyses, the
lenition of the palatalized...
- (2013), "Regional
dialect leveling in
Najdi Arabic: The case of the
deaffrication of [k] in the Qaṣīmī dialect",
Language Variation and Change, 25: 43–63...
- /tʃ/ (ch as in church),
known as attenuation, or, more commonly, as
deaffrication.
Between vowels, the
voiced post-alveolar
affricate consonant is realized...
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sibilants (with
different results according to
voicing and
affrication vs.
deaffrication). While,
arguably there are
seven to
eight sibilants in
Standard Catalan...
- (2013), "Regional
dialect leveling in
Najdi Arabic: The case of the
deaffrication of [k] in the Qaṣīmī dialect",
Language Variation and Change, 25 (1):...
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original *ṯ, then
shifted further back to a
postalveolar *š,
while deaffrication of *ts and *dz to *s and *z gave
these phonemes their Hebrew values...
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initial and
postconsonantal x (except in some cases) and the
lenition (
deaffrication) of tz /d͡z/ in most
instances (especially the -itzar suffix). Before...
- *z *ṣ
shift to *š
before *t,
which is more
naturally interpreted as
deaffrication.
Evidence for *š as /s/ also
exists but is
somewhat less clear. It has...
