-
sound changes:
shortening of
double consonants,
affrication of stops,
spirantization or ****ibilation of
stops or affricates, debuccalization, and finally...
-
vowel and not geminated. The name is also
given to
similar cases of
spirantization of post-vocalic
plosives in
other languages; for instance, in Jerba...
-
letters that are able to be
spirantized (see also: Begadkepat). In the East
Syriac variant of the alphabet,
spirantization marks are
usually omitted when...
-
voicing to
spirantization to, in some cases,
elision (deletion). In
Spanish these three consonants generally undergo both
voicing and
spirantization, resulting...
-
variation with a long vowel: aakaaʔ / ahkaaʔ ('devil's horn').
Spirantization:
spirantization can
occur in the
phonemes /p/ and /t/ when they are preceded...
-
voiced fricatives during the
period of
Koine Gr**** (
spirantization, a form of lenition).
Spirantization of /tʰ/
occurred earlier in
Laconian Gr****. Some...
- syllable-initial /f/ and non-syllable-initial /p/ and /b/ in loan words.
Spirantization still occurs in
verbal and
nominal derivation, but now the alternations...
- with the
following exceptions: The
influence of Arabic, the
process of
spirantization, and the
absence of
labialization have
caused the
consonant systems...
-
instead merged with /ʃ/.
Allophonic spirantization of /b ɡ d k p t/ to [v ɣ ð x f θ] (known as
begadkefat spirantization)
developed sometime during the lifetime...
- but
later with d, t, ṭ, s, and ʿ. (Also note that due to
begadkefat spirantization,
which occurred after this merger, OAm. t > ṯ and d > ḏ in some positions...
