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Mutation (Phonetics)

LC control no.sh 87003526
Topical headingMutation (Phonetics)
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Variant(s)Fortition (Phonetics)
Grammar, Comparative and general--Mutation
Lenition (Phonetics)
See alsosubdivision Mutation under individual languages and groups of languages, e.g. English language--Mutation
Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology
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Found inWork cat.: Oftedal, M. Lenition in Celtic and insular Spanish, 1985.
Crystal, Dictionary of linguistics and phonetics: p. 202.
Curr. trends ling.: v. 14, p. 403.
Hartmann dict. lang.: p. 128 (Lenition) p. 147 (Mutation)
Pei gloss. ling.: p. 145 (Lenition) p. 174 (Mutation)
The typology and modelling of obstruent lenition and fortition processes, c2003: t.p. (lenition, fortition) p. 7 (notions central to sound change)
Crystal, David. A dictionary of language, 2001: p. 124 (in entry under the term "fortis": fortition, a process of the overall strengthening of the force of a sound; contrasts with lenition, weakening in overall force/tension)