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In other words, they occur more frequently and are more likely to undergo processes such as lenition, deletion, and assimilation than other place types.
There are also lenition processes affecting unstressed vowels.
This means that the possible lenition trajectories which would be worthy of consideration for /t/ and /k/ are as in (11).
There is of course no suggestion that every language will necessarily exhibit distributional or lenition asymmetries between different consonantal positions within a foot.
First, its lenition patterns have not been the subject of much close phonetic analysis.
This forces us to consider the sense in which speakers might be said to be implementing a process of ' lenition '.
The availability of, and reference to, a phonological grammar may also assist in accounting for variable output in terms of degree and locus of lenition.
This indicates that word-initial position is potentially not the position which is most likely to inhibit lenition.
While these considerations are important, they can and often do ignore the ways in which the melodic environment affects the likelihood of lenition.
The patterns found in connection with the lenition of /k/ are similar to those exhibited by /t/, but there are certain clear differences.
High frequency use of grammatical functors causes their lenition and erosion.
Absence of such bursts, therefore, is a major indicator of lenition.
Many appear as all-or-nothing categorizations of an outcome, failing to account for the fine granularity and analog nature of lenition shown in the present study.
So a novel form may undergo lenition if that form closely resembles a form which regularly exhibits the lenition in question.
When glottal replacement proper began to become established, t-to-r ceased to be the dominant lenition process.
To carry out this goal, a quantitative construct of lenition is required-a hypothetical latent variable, but one that is well-grounded in observable reality.
It is also quite certain that the fricative output of the lenition of /t/ was not, in fact, a canonical grooved alveolar fricative.
On the one hand, a constraint against perceptual confusion, given the existing phoneme inventory, likely inhibits lenition of nonvelar consonants.

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