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Perceptual Pressures on Lenition [PDF]
Language and Speech, 2011 The phonological processes known as ‘lenition’ have traditionally been explained as articulatory effort reduction. However, such a motivation for lenition has never been directly demonstrated; in addition, there are reasons to doubt the articulatory explanation.This paper focuses on a particular type of lenition (intervocalic spirantization of voiced ...
Abby Kaplan
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The Causal Structure of Lenition: A Case for the Causal Precedence of Durational Shortening [PDF]
Language, 2020 Studies of variable lenition patterns converged on two phonetic properties as characteristic of lenition: reduced duration and increased intensity. However, the causal precedence of the two factors remains unclear.
Uriel Cohen Priva
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Locality domains on Lenition. Spirantization (Gorgia) and Voicing in Tuscan dialects [PDF]
Linx, 2022 This article investigates the diachronic and synchronic relation between Tuscan lenition (Voicing) and spirantization (Gorgia) of voiceless Latin stops, both processes are postvocalic/lenition processes.
Michela Russo
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Consonant lenition and phonological recategorization [PDF]
Laboratory Phonology, 2011 We examine the weakening of intervocalic voiceless stops in Spanish in order to gain insight on historical processes of intervocalic lenition. In our corpus, about a third of all tokens of intervocalic /ptk/ are fully or partially voiced in spontaneous ...
JOSÉ Ignacio Hualde, Miquel Simonet
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2009
This paper proposes an OT account of diachronic and synchronic Romance lenition based on the theory of Comparative Markedness. The analysis, contrary to previous analyses, allows for a straightforward description of synchronic allophonic lenition processes where voicing and spirantization take place simultaneously without loss of contrast.
Haike Jacobs, Robbie van Gerwen
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This paper proposes an OT account of diachronic and synchronic Romance lenition based on the theory of Comparative Markedness. The analysis, contrary to previous analyses, allows for a straightforward description of synchronic allophonic lenition processes where voicing and spirantization take place simultaneously without loss of contrast.
Haike Jacobs, Robbie van Gerwen
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Journal of Linguistics, 2008
The definition of lenition remains problematic, with several competing and at times incompatible definitions being current. What is more, some of these definitions seem to lead to paradoxes. In this paper, some of these paradoxes are considered, and a revised definition of lenition is suggested which, while being compatible with the spirit of earlier ...
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The definition of lenition remains problematic, with several competing and at times incompatible definitions being current. What is more, some of these definitions seem to lead to paradoxes. In this paper, some of these paradoxes are considered, and a revised definition of lenition is suggested which, while being compatible with the spirit of earlier ...
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Journal of Linguistics, 1988
Most phonological textbooks and treatises do not define lenition or weakening, as it is also called. Instead they provide a list of examples of processes which they wish to term ‘lenitions’ or ‘weakenings’. It is then hoped that the reader will deduce a correct definition.
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Most phonological textbooks and treatises do not define lenition or weakening, as it is also called. Instead they provide a list of examples of processes which they wish to term ‘lenitions’ or ‘weakenings’. It is then hoped that the reader will deduce a correct definition.
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