-
lenition mixes the
opening and
sonorization pathways. For example, [kʰ] may
spirantize or open to [x], then
voice or
sonorize to [ɣ].
Lenition can be seen in...
-
letters can be
spirantized varies from
dialect to
dialect as some
dialects have lost the
ability for
certain letters to be
spirantized. For
native words...
-
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...
- the
letter ܬ݂ ܬ݂ ܬ݂
indicating 'soft' pronunciation, the
phone is
spirantized to a
fricative /θ/. Hard taw (taw qšīṯā) is
Romanized as a
plain t, while...
- word ഫലം /falam/. In the
Jesari dialect the
native word-initial /p/ too
spirantized to [f]. /m, n, ɳ, l, ɭ/ are
unreleased word finally.
Words will never...
- /ʒ/, ş = /ʃ/, ç = /tʃ/, c = /dʒ/, k = /c~k/, g = /ɟ/, q = /g/ (often
spirantized as [x] in codas), ğ = /ɣ/, y = /j/, ə = /æ/, ö = /œ/, ü = /y/, ı = /ɯ/...
-
Northern European Portuguese and some
Catalan and
Occitan varieties)
spirantization of /b/, /d/, and /ɡ/ → [β̞], [ð̞] and [ɣ̞]—not only from
original Latin...
- is only
different from its
plain counterpart because of its length.
Spirantized consonants have long
stops as
their geminate counterparts, e.g. yezḏeɣ...
- 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...
- [ɸ]) were
historically allophonic, as a
consequence of a
phenomenon of
spirantization known as
begadkefat under the
influence of the
Aramaic language on BH/MH...
