{"id":2601,"date":"2011-09-12T18:35:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T17:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2601"},"modified":"2011-10-07T15:41:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T14:41:57","slug":"lenition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2601","title":{"rendered":":Lenition:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pronunciation <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>l\u026a\u02c8n\u026a\u0283n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A phonological process which weakens sounds along the following strength hierarchy (> means &#8216;stronger than&#8217;): <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=504\">plosive<\/a>><a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=557\">fricative<\/a>><a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=575\">approximant<\/a>><a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=578\">vowel<\/a>><span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>h<\/strong><\/span>>zero. <\/p>\n<p>The change from voiceless to voiced is also viewed as lenition. An example from Welsh: <em>basged <\/em><span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u02c8basged<\/strong><\/span> (= &#8220;basket&#8221;), <em>y \u02c8fasged<\/em>  <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u0259 vasged<\/strong><\/span> (= &#8220;the basket&#8221;).<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Compare <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2598\">fortition<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pronunciation l\u026a\u02c8n\u026a\u0283n A phonological process which weakens sounds along the following strength hierarchy (> means &#8216;stronger than&#8217;): plosive>fricative>approximant>vowel>h>zero. The change from voiceless to voiced is also viewed as lenition. An example from Welsh: basged \u02c8basged (= &#8220;basket&#8221;), y \u02c8fasged \u0259 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2601\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":199,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2601"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3796,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2601\/revisions\/3796"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}