Lenition
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title:
Lenition
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In linguistics, lenition is a sound change that alters consonants, making them “weaker” in some way. The word lenition itself means "softening" or "weakening". Lenition can happen both synchronically and diachronically. Lenition can involve such changes as voicing a voiceless consonant, causing a consonant to relax occlusion, to lose its place of articulation, or even causing a consonant to disappear entirely. An example of synchronic lenition is found in most varieties of American English, in t
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Consonant sound change
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenition
date created:
2004-01-19T01:28:38Z
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2024-09-02T13:42:09Z
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