📚 noun • entry_id 54935
fortition
/fɔːˈtɪʃən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
fortición
A sound change in which a consonant becomes more fortis.
1988, Sylvia Moosmüller, Sociophonology, Peter Auer, Aldo di Luzio (editors), Variation and Convergence: Studies in Social Dialectology, page 76, The two process types following fr…
In order to distinguish between the two kinds of voiceless final stops the terms 'final devoicing' and 'fortition after sonorants' are used here. Although fortition after sonorants…
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