lenition

It is a stage in the process of lenition.

Eventually, consonants may be lost completely, which is the ultimate lenition.

A vowel-initial word does not change where lenition is expected:

The final step of lenition is then complete apocope.

The opposite of lenition is called fortition, which is a less common sound change.

Lenition of intervocalic stops, which happens to the northwest but not to the southeast.

Historically, sounds may move along this cline toward less stricture in a process called lenition.

The other consonants do not change under lenition.

Lenition is blocked in these constructions if two coronals are adjacent.

A small number of adjectives precede the noun, and generally cause lenition.

In some cases, a lenition change may "skip" one of the columns in the above tables.

The preterite of the copula causes lenition, while the present tense does not.

When used as prepositions, more along the lines of what English does, certain of them trigger lenition.

Consonant gradation was a process of lenition that affected the obstruents.

(Note: This occurred at the same time as the first lenition, and individual words inconsistently show one change before the other.

The major phonological process in jysk consonants is lenition.

Simple past tense in regular verbs is indicated by lenition of the initial consonant.

The principal marker is the vocative particle a which causes lenition of the initial letter.

Case forms can be related to the base form by suffixation, lenition, slenderisation, or a combination of such changes.

Tweants uses extensive lenition in its spoken form.

Lenition has its own significance when the plural prefix can optionally be omitted.

The vocative case causes lenition of the initial consonant of names.

One important innovation of Hungarian is the lenition of the stop consonants *p *k in initial position.

In linguistics, lenition is a kind of sound change that alters consonants, making them more sonorous.

In the Celtic languages, the phenomenon of intervocalic lenition historically extended across word boundaries.