Lenition involves changes in manner of articulation, sometimes accompanied by small changes in place of articulation. There are two main lenition pathways: opening and sonorization. In both cases, a stronger sound becomes a weaker one.

The meaning of LENITION is the change from fortis to lenis articulation.

2024年5月23日 · Lenition is a consonant mutation that weakens the sound a consonant makes within a word. This change can take place anywhere within the word, depending on the nature …

2008年11月28日 · According to this definition, lenition is primarily a diachronic process affecting the sound structure of languages. It may also have synchronie reflexes (such as initial consonant mutations in the Celtic languages), but these are called ‘lenitions’ by …

2025年1月18日 · lenition (countable and uncountable, plural lenitions) (phonetics, phonology) A weakening of articulation causing a consonant to become lenis (soft). Antonym: fortition Coordinate term: assimilation

Lenition is a phonological process that involves the weakening or reduction of consonant sounds, making them softer or less articulated.

approximant, in phonetics, a sound that is produced by bringing one articulator in the vocal tract close to another without, however, causing audible friction (see fricative). Approximants include semivowels, such as the y sound in “yes” or the w sound in “war.”

There are also different types of lenition, and different views regarding what lenitions have in common.

Lenition refers to changes that involve weakening of sounds. These changes can be diachronic, e.g., historic changes in Celtic, Romance, and Germanic languages or synchronic, i.e., contemporary changes in modern languages or dialects.

Lenition is a phonetic process that involves the weakening or softening of consonant sounds. This change can manifest as a shift from a more forceful consonant to a less forceful one, such as a voiceless consonant becoming voiced, or a stop consonant becoming a fricative.