lenition

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Sources

• TRASK 1996 201

  TRASK, R. L. (1996) A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology. London: Routledge. 

• NASH 1968 220 (softening)

  NASH, Rose. (1968) Multilingual Lexicon of Linguistics and Philology: English, Russian, German, French. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press. 

• HARTMANN & STORK 1972 128

  HARTMANN, R.R.K. & STORK, F.C. (1972) Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. London: Applied Science Publishers.

• ONISHI 1981 314 (lenis phonation)

  ONISHI, Masao. (1981) A Grand Dictionary of Phonetics. Tokyo: The Phonetic Society of Japan. 

• HOCK 1986 80-81

  HOCK, Hans Henrich. (1986) Principles of Historical Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• ELL 5139

  The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.

• MacKay 1989 132, 186 (also "lenite (vt.)", "lenited (adj.)")

  MACKAY, Ian. (1989) Phonetics and Speech Science. A Bilingual Dictionary. Dictionnaire Bilingue de la Phonétique et des Sciences de la Parole. New York/Bern: Peter Lang.

• PEI & GAYNOR 1954 121 (Celtic initial mutation)

  PEI, Mario A. & GAYNOR, Frank. (1954) A Dictionary of Linguistics. New York : Philosophical Library.

• MATTHEWS 1997 202-203

  MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• CRYSTAL 2003 264 (also "lenite (v.)")

  CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.