- delimiters. In linguistics,
lenition is a
sound change that
alters consonants,
making them "weaker" in some way. The word
lenition itself means "softening"...
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consonant mutations:
lenition (Irish: séimhiú [ˈʃeːvʲuː]) and
eclipsis (urú [ˈʊɾˠuː]) (the
alternative names,
aspiration for
lenition and
nasalisation for...
- (
lenition marking the
genitive case of a
masculine noun) Seán "John" – a Sheáin! "John!" (
lenition as part of the
vocative case, the
vocative lenition...
- /ˈvɛːnet/ (Romance
vowel changes) > /ˈvjɛnet/ (diphthongization) > /ˈvjɛned/ (
lenition) > /ˈvjɛnd/ (Gallo-Romance
final vowel loss) > /ˈvjɛnt/ (final devoicing)...
- non-contiguous segments, as Gr**** amélgō "I milk" >
Modern Gr**** armégō.
Lenition: "Weakening" of a
consonant from one that
takes more
effort to pronounce...
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contexts falling intonation in most
types of sentences,
including questions lenition and
extreme sandhi phenomena Due to the
geographic concentration of Gaelic...
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vibrants and
laterals are
separated out so that the rows
reflect the
common lenition pathway of stop →
fricative → approximant, as well as the fact that several...
- when not
prefixed to a word
initial vowel or
after a
consonant to show
lenition,
primarily occurs word
initially in loanwords, e.g. hata "hat". ⟨k⟩ is...
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increases the
degree of stricture. It is the
opposite of the more
common lenition. For example, a
fricative or an
approximant may
become a stop (i.e. [v]...
- the word used by
modern phoneticians, and
linguists prefer to
speak of
lenition here. Historically, the
Celtic initial mutations originated from progressive...
