- 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...
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lenition marking the
genitive case of a
masculine noun) Seán "John" – a Sheáin! "John!" (
lenition as part of the
vocative case, the
vocative lenition...
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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...
- /ˈvɛːnet/ (Romance
vowel changes) > /ˈvjɛnet/ (diphthongization) > /ˈvjɛned/ (
lenition) > /ˈvjɛnd/ (Gallo-Romance
final vowel loss) > /ˈvjɛnt/ (final devoicing)...
- Gaulish.
Examples include sandhi phenomena (liaison, resyllabification,
lenition), the loss of
unstressed syllables and the
vowel system (such as raising...
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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]...
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laryngeal phonation that is used phonemically. It also
exhibits extensive lenition of plosives,
which is
noticeably more
common than in the
neighboring languages...
- fricative. The
change in the
manner of
articulation is a form of
lenition. However, the
lenition is
frequently accompanied by a
change in
place of articulation...
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Common to most
Eastern Iranian languages is a
particularly widespread lenition of the
voiced stops *b, *d, *g.
Between vowels,
these have been lenited...
