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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
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Lenition in L2 Spanish: The Impact of Study Abroad on Phonological Acquisition [PDF]
Brain SciencesObjective: 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.
Ratree Wayland +2 more
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Quantitative Acoustic versus Deep Learning Metrics of Lenition [PDF]
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.
Ratree Wayland +2 more
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, 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
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The phonetics and phonology of lenition: A Campidanese Sardinian case study [PDF]
Laboratory Phonology, 2019 This paper gives a detailed description of the consonant system of Campidanese Sardinian and makes methodological and theoretical contributions to the study of lenition.
Jonah Katz
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Intervocalic lenition, contrastiveness and neutralization in Catalan [PDF]
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
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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
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Voiceless stop lenition and reduction as linguistic and social phenomena in Concepción, Chile [PDF]
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2018 This study investigates voiceless stop lenition in Chilean Spanish. Recent studies (e.g. Pérez 2007, Figueroa & Evans 2014 among others) have documented high levels of lenition of /bdg/ in Chilean Spanish.
Brandon M.A. Rogers +1 more
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Lenition and morphology in Finnish [PDF]
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2019 This paper investigates an interaction between consonant lenition and morphology in Finnish. The language has a process of consonant lenition whereby underlying geminate consonants at syllable boundaries lenite (degeminate) when the addition of an affix makes the post-geminate rime bimoraic. A small class of possessor agreement affixes do not condition
Holladay, Kaden
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An Effort Based Approach to Consonant Lenition [PDF]
, 2013 Despite the pervasiveness of lenition in the sound systems of natural language, this class of patterns has eluded adequate characterization in previous theories of phonology. Specifically, previous theories have failed to capture formally the phonetic unity of the various lenition processes (e.g.
Kirchner, Robert Martin
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