- [ˈɹeɪ̯ɾɚ]. The
Italian of
Central and
Southern Italy has a
number of
lenitions, the most
widespread of
which is the
deaffrication of /t͡ʃ/ to [ʃ] between...
-
consonant mutations:
lenition (Irish: séimhiú [ˈʃeːvʲuː]) and
eclipsis (urú [ˈʊɾˠuː]) (the
alternative names,
aspiration for
lenition and
nasalisation for...
-
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)...
- as in
other Western Romance languages,
except Spanish and Sardinian.
Lenition of
voiced stops [b] → [β], [d] → [ð], [ɡ] → [ɣ] as in
Galician and Spanish...
- ⟨h⟩
placed after a
consonant is
known as a "séimhiú" and
indicates the
lenition of that consonant; ⟨h⟩
began to
replace the
original form of a séimhiú...
- is the
equivalent of /ŋk/
under weakening consonant gradation (type of
lenition) and thus
occurs only medially, e.g. Helsinki –
Helsingin kaupunki (city...
- of the
changes that are
typical of
Western Romance languages,
including lenition of
intervocalic consonants (thus
Latin vīta >
Spanish vida). The diphthongization...
-
these are innovations,
especially lenitions and mergers, and some of
Andalusian Spanish's most
distinct lenitions and
mergers occur in the
syllable coda...
- "daughter of the son of"); in both
cases the
following name
undergoes lenition. However, if the
second part of the
surname begins with the
letter C or...
