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Lenition, perception and neutralisation [PDF]
Phonology, 2016 This paper argues that processes traditionally classified as lenition fall into at least two subsets, with distinct phonetic reflexes, formal properties and characteristic contexts. One type, referred to as loss lenition, frequently neutralises contrasts in positions where they are perceptually indistinct.
Katz, Jonah
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Lenition of voiced stops in Kurdish [PDF]
Folia LinguisticaAbstract Contemporary Kurdish variety groups exhibit considerable variation with respect to the lenition of voiced stops. This paper presents a first systematic overview of lenition across major varieties of Kurdish, drawing on published data and a recent questionnaire developed for studying phonological variation within Kurdish ...
Mohammadirad, Masoud, Öpengin, Ergin
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Quantifying Lenition as a Diagnostic Marker for Parkinson’s Disease and Atypical Parkinsonism [PDF]
BioMedInformaticsObjective: This study aimed to evaluate lenition, a phonological process involving consonant weakening, as a diagnostic marker for differentiating Parkinson’s Disease (PD) from Atypical Parkinsonism (APD).
Ratree Wayland +4 more
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Ethnosociophonology and consonant lenition in Maxakalí [PDF]
Revista Linguística, 2015 This paper aims at describing and explaining the allophony of consonants in coda position in Maxakalí, which varies from a consonantal phonetic realization to a vowel allophone. Prevocalization of consonants is a common linguistic feature, but, interestingly, in Maxakalí almost all consonants undergo lenition, with this variation occurring in the ...
Mário André Coelho da Silva +1 more
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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
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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
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El español canario: un reflejo del cambio lingüístico debilitante en el mundo hispanohablante
Romanica Cracoviensia, 2022 Gran Canarian Spanish: A Reflection of Weakening Language Change in the Spanish-Speaking World The aim of the paper is to present a thorough description of the terms weakening and lenition in the ...
Karolina Broś
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The Diachronic Lenition in Old English [PDF]
, 2021 Honeybone (2012) states that there are not many lenitions in the history of English. Kindly refer to Honeybone (2012) for the detailed definition of lenition.
Kobayashi, H (via Mendeley Data)
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Modelling opacity and variation in Gran Canarian Spanish apocope
Glossa, 2023 In this paper, we present novel data from Spanish spoken on Gran Canaria which show an interaction of two lenition processes: final consonant deletion and vowel apocope.
Aleksei Ioulevitch Nazarov +1 more
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Infant‐directed speech does not always involve exaggerated vowel distinctions: Evidence from Danish
Child Development, Volume 94, Issue 6, Page 1672-1696, November/December 2023., 2023 Abstract This study compared the acoustic properties of 26 (100% female, 100% monolingual) Danish caregivers' spontaneous speech addressed to their 11‐ to 24‐month‐old infants (infant‐directed speech, IDS) and an adult experimenter (adult‐directed speech, ADS). The data were collected between 2016 and 2018 in Aarhus, Denmark.
Christopher Cox +5 more
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