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Lenition in North Sea Germanic

NOWELE. North-Western European Language Evolution, 2021
Abstract Lenition, or postvocalic weakening of obstruents, occurred in several languages in North Sea Germanic. Although the main centers of Germanic lenition lie outside this region, in High German and Danish, systemic lenition took place in Low German, North Frisian, and Dutch.
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Informativity and the Actuation of Lenition

Language, 2017
What causes Indonesian to lenite word-final /k/, American English to lenite word-final /t/, and Spanish to lenite word-final /s/? This article shows that all three observed lenition patterns can be motivated using a single principle: languages preferentially lenite segments that provide relatively low informativity compared to the amount of ...
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Lenition in Common Slavic

Language, 1969
Three different reflexes of Proto-Slavic *g and the reflex of *di̭ changed to fricatives in early Slavic. A hitherto unnoticed sequential constraint in Common Slavic, along with the geographical limitations of these changes, permits us to date them ...
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Boundaries and Lenition in Yuman Languages

International Journal of American Linguistics, 1975
phonological analysis whereby v can be accounted for as a variant of p, even synchronically, so that the morpheme -vu can be recognized as a reduced unstressed variant of the demonstrative pu' that one, he. This can only be done by recognizing the unique syntactic environment in which v occurs, since there are two other suffixes in the language with ...
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lenite, v.

2023
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Gemination, Lenition, and Vowel Lengthening

2018
The processes of gemination, lenition, and vowel lengthening are central to the study of phonology, as they reveal much about the treatment of quantity in a given language. Using data from older language stages, modern dialects and standard languages, this study examines the interdependence of vowel and consonant quantity in the history of the Germanic
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lenitic, adj.

2023
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lenition, n.

2023
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Lenition and fortition of /r/ in utterance-final position, an ultrasound tongue imaging study of lingual gesture timing in spontaneous speech

Journal of Phonetics, 2021
Eleanor Lawson, Jane Stuart-Smith
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Posotional factors in Lenition and Fortition

2008
Scheer, Tobias, Ségéral, Philippe
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