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What is a lenition?

What is a lenition? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (phonetics) A weakening of articulation causing a consonant to become lenis (soft).
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Some believe that the voicing of voiceless sounds is connected with a similar, though not identical, process in Celtic known as lenition.
One of the ways that adjunction is different from other relations is that multiple adjunction is allowed, and we indeed seem to see lenition of multiple adjectives in i mbas ilaurui vín.
There are three types of mutations, the nasal mutation, the spirant mutation and lenition.
There is also the possibility that due to hain's position in the sentence it would not undergo lenition though this would seem to be contradicted by Daur a Berhael?
Recall that the lenition of coronals is manifested by debuccalization, interpreted by Ni Chiosain as the delinking of the coronal node.
In intransitive sentences, if the subject does move, this non-preferred word order may be marked by verbal lenition.

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