What is linguistic fortition?
What is linguistic fortition? a phonological process that strengthens consonant articulation at the beginnings of syllables, causing devoicing or the formation of stops. Linguistics. a type of Celtic mutation that derives historically from phonological fortition. What is fortition and lenition? Fortition is the opposite of lenition: a consonant mutation in which a consonant changes from one considered weak to one considered strong. Fortition is less frequent than lenition in the languages of the world, but word-initial and word-final fortition is fairly frequent. What is deletion in linguistics? In linguistics, an elision or deletion is broadly defined as the omission of...