delimiters. In linguistics, lenition is a sound change that alters consonants, making them "weaker" in some way. The word lenition itself means "softening"...

consonant mutations: lenition (Irish: séimhiú [ˈʃeːvʲuː]) and eclipsis (urú [ˈʊɾˠuː]) (the alternative names, aspiration for lenition and nasalisation for...

delimiters. Consonant gradation is a type of consonant mutation (mostly lenition but also assimilation) found in some Uralic languages, more specifically...

(lenition marking the genitive case of a masculine noun) Seán "John" – a Sheáin! "John!" (lenition as part of the vocative case, the vocative lenition...

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)...

meaning "cheek" or "mouth". Debuccalization is usually seen as a subtype of lenition, which is often defined as a sound change involving the weakening of a...

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]...

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...

form or isolation form). Types of connected speech principles Coalescence Lenition Elision Assimilation Simplification Liaison Juncture Morphophonology Phonology...

of the changes that are typical of Western Romance languages, including lenition of intervocalic consonants (thus Latin vīta > Spanish vida). The diphthongization...

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...

in Manx as Mannin, or in full, Ellan Vallin (i.e. "island of Man", with lenition of the first consonant). Mannin was originally a dative form, the nominative...

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...

the word used by modern phoneticians, and linguists prefer to speak of lenition here. Historically, the Celtic initial mutations originated from progressive...

Common to most Eastern Iranian languages is a particularly widespread lenition of the voiced stops *b, *d, *g. Between vowels, these have been lenited...

non-contiguous segments, as Greek amélgō "I milk" > Modern Greek armégō. Lenition: "Weakening" of a consonant from one that takes more effort to pronounce...

The Brittonic languages (also Brythonic or British Celtic; Welsh: ieithoedd Brythonaidd/Prydeinig; Cornish: yethow brythonek/predennek; and Breton: yezhoù...

series of consonants in Romance languages. Stop consonants shifted by lenition in Vulgar Latin in some areas. The voiced labial consonants /b/ and /w/...

of these features are also present in Romanian. Little or no phonemic lenition of consonants between vowels, e.g. vīta > vita 'life' (cf. Romanian viață...

imperfect, preterite, and conditional, a consonant-initial stem undergoes lenition (and dialectally is preceded by do), while a vowel-initial stem is prefixed...

Gaulish. Examples include sandhi phenomena (liaison, resyllabification, lenition), the loss of unstressed syllables and the vowel system (such as raising...

widespread in Finnish grammar. These alternations are a form of synchronic lenition. They occur also in other Finnic and Uralic languages; see consonant gradation...

⟨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...

⟨cʼh⟩ between vowels. [ɣ] also appears as the lenition of ⟨g, cʼh⟩ and mixed mutation of ⟨g⟩. ^ The lenition of ⟨d⟩ and the spirantization of ⟨t⟩ are both...

both pronounced /la/. In Gaelic type, a dot over a consonant indicates lenition of the consonant in question. In other writing systems, diacritics may...

There is no consensus on whether Phoenician-Punic ever underwent the lenition of stop consonants that happened in most other Northwest Semitic languages...

German varieties, but many of them have no two-way contrast due to general lenition. /ɛ(ː), œ(ː), ɔ(ː)/ are true-mid [ɛ̝(ː), œ̝(ː), ɔ̝(ː)]. /ə/ occurs only...

and syllabic consonants. Affrication of /t/ as [ts] word-initially and lenition to [θ̠] intervocalically and word-finally. The latter type of allophony...

the lenition. However, in the Old Irish phrase in maicc ("of the son"), the m is still lenited, so the pronunciation would be /ɪn β̃ak/. The lenition was...