lenition

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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 examples of lenition given earlier in (1) through (3) all occur either between vowels or between sonorants.”