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Routes to Lenition: An Acoustic Study [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2010
BACKGROUND: Vowel lenition and its link with coarticulation have been the subject of extensive debate in the literature. The aims of the present paper are to demonstrate how vowel lenition and coarticulation are linked in Cypriot Greek (henceforth CG ...
Eftychia Eftychiou
exaly   +6 more sources

Lenition in L2 Spanish: The Impact of Study Abroad on Phonological Acquisition [PDF]

Brain Sciences
Objective: This study investigated the degrees of lenition, or consonantal weakening, in the production of Spanish stop consonants by native English speakers during a study abroad (SA) program.
Kevin Tang, Ratree Wayland, Sophia Vellozzi   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Quantitative Acoustic versus Deep Learning Metrics of Lenition

Languages, 2023
Spanish voiced stops /b, d, ɡ/ surfaced as fricatives [β, ð, ɣ] in intervocalic position due to a phonological process known as spirantization or, more broadly, lenition.
Kevin Tang, Ratree Wayland, Rahul Sengupta   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Lenition in English [PDF]

, 2012
AbstractCertain kinds of segmental change have been proposed to form part of an overarching type of change known as lenition, forming a continuum of changes that consonants can spontaneously undergo. The types of change that are typically recognized as lenitions include “spirantization,” “approximantization,” “debuccalization,” and “voicing.” This ...
Patrick Honeybone
exaly   +2 more sources

The Importance of Being Onset: Tuscan Lenition and Stops in Coda Position

Languages
This paper examines Gorgia Toscana (GT), a phenomenon of stop lenition observed in Tuscan varieties of Italian. Traditionally, this process has been understood to occur in post-vocalic positions, which, in the native lexicon, corresponds to onset ...
Giuditta Avano, Piero Cossu
exaly   +3 more sources

Lenition in the mozarabic dialects: A reappraisal

Al-Qantara : Revista de Estudios Arabes, 1997
El propósito de este estudio no es defender ni negar la sonorización de las /-t-/ y /-k-/ latinas en los dialectos mozárabes, sino proponer que, siendo difícil fijar el valor fonológico de las grafías ṭā’ y qāf en los varios registros del árabe andalusí,
David Hanlon
doaj   +4 more sources

Celtic Lenition in English Nicknames

Names, 1972
IN ANARTICLEwritten a number of years ago,l I demonstrated that certain English nicknames and proper names, and even some words otherwise unexplainable were to be accounted for by the apparently once widespread substitution of initial h for initial r in the names Richard (giving Hick), Robert (Hob), and Roger (Hodge).
John P. Hughes
doaj   +3 more sources

Intervocalic lenition, contrastiveness and neutralization in Catalan

Isogloss, 2022
In this study we examine the effects of word boundaries on the lenition of intervocalic voiceless plosives in Catalan in order to test the role of phonological contrastiveness in phonetic processes.
Jose Ignacio Hualde, Jennifer Zhang
doaj   +1 more source

An Examination of Social, Phonetic, and Lexical Variables on the Lenition of Intervocalic Voiced Stops by Spanish Heritage Speakers

Languages, 2021
The lenition of Spanish intervocalic voiced stops, commonly grouped as /bdg/, has increasingly been examined within Spanish as a Heritage Language research.
Kaylyn Blair, Sarah Lease
doaj   +1 more source

Lenition in Persian: A Case Study of Stop Consonants [PDF]

مطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران, 2020
In the present research, the lenition of stop consonants in Persian continuous speech has been investigated within the framework of laboratory phonology.
Vahid Sadeghi, Somaye Eslami
doaj   +1 more source