An Effort Based Approach to Consonant Lenition (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 16, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780415937436
First sentence: The term "lenition" (&lt; L. lenis, 'week') refers to synchronic alternations, as well as diachronic sound changes, whereby a sound becomes "weaker," or where a "weaker" sound bears an allophonic relation to a "stronger" sound.