lenition

n. 辅音之减弱

发音

UK /lɪˈnɪʃən/
其它
UK /ləˈnɪʃən/
UK /liːˈnɪʃən/
US /ləˈnɪʃən/
US /liˈnɪʃən/

词形变化

lenitions 复数 lenitions

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A weakening of articulation causing a consonant to become lenis (soft).

    辅音弱化

    弱音化

    可数 不可数 语言学

    2008, Krzysztof Jaskula, Celtic, Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho, Tobias Scheer, Philippe Ségéral (editors), Lenition and Fortition, Studies in Generative Grammar: 99, page 347, As for Goidelic languages, the situation is clearer because Lenition III in this subfamily consisted in losing the same property as the first two lenitions, namely stopness.

    2011, Naomi Gurevich, 66: Lenition, Marc van Oostendorp, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth V. Hume, Keren Rice (editors), The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, Volume III: Phonological Processes, page 1573, Five general patterns of lenitions – all based to some extent on empirical data – are identified.

词源

Analyzable as lenis + -ition, or as if from Latin lēnīt(us) + -ion, or Latin lēnītiō (“softening”) from lēniō (“soften”) + -tiō (action noun suffix) (attested since at least the 1500s, the same timeframe lenition is first attested in English with the sense "assuaging"). Modelled on German Lenierung.

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