Studies of variable lenition patterns converge on two phonetic properties as characteristic of
lenition: reduced duration and increased intensity. However, the causal precedence of the …

This study explores ongoing lenition of postvocalic/ptkbdg/in the Spanish of Gran Canaria.
Duration, intensity and harmonics-to-noise ratio of 16,454 sounds produced by 44 native …

This paper discusses the maximum robustness approach for studying cases of adaptation in
language. We live in an age where we have more data on more languages than ever before …

A deep learning Phonet model was evaluated as a method to measure lenition. Unlike
quantitative acoustic methods, recurrent networks were trained to recognize the posterior …

This paper gives a detailed description of the consonant system of Campidanese Sardinian
and makes methodological and theoretical contributions to the study of lenition. The data are …

Spanish voiced stops/b, d, ɡ/surfaced as fricatives [β, ð, ɣ] in intervocalic position due to a
phonological process known as spirantization or, more broadly, lenition. However …

This paper develops a model of lenition in Campidanese Sardinian. The model treats
lenition (and its inverse, fortition) as a predictable consequence of gradient changes in …

Predictions of gradient degree of lenition of voiceless and voiced stops in a corpus of
Argentine Spanish are evaluated using three acoustic measures (minimum and maximum …

A field-based ultrasound and acoustic study of Iwaidja, an endangered Australian Aboriginal
language, investigates the phonetic identity of nonnasal velar consonants in intervocalic …

Hawaiian, or 'Ōlelo Hawaiʻi, is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken on the islands of
Hawaiʻi. This study examines oral stops in Hawaiian as produced by speakers on the 1970 …