OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 28578

lenition

/lɪˈnɪʃən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
lenición • lenificación
A weakening of articulation causing a consonant to become lenis (soft).
Environments are an essential part of any discussion of lenition. Textbooks often describe lenition as occurring in the weak intervocalic or word-final environments. The canonical…
One of these processes, the process of T-Lenition, is extremely common, even though it takes place only when the input consonant is adjacent to a small number of affixes. In this c…
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