Lenition, weaking and consonantal strenght: tracing concepts through the history of phonology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction to the volume 1
4. Part One - Properties and behaviour of Lenition and Frotition
5. Lenition, weaking and consonantal strenght: tracing concepts through the history of phonology 9
6. What and where? 93
7. Posotional factors in Lenition and Fortition 131
8. Metrical influences on fortition and lenition 173
9. Part two - Lenition patterns in particular languages and language families
10. Western Romance 207
11. Lenition in Tuscan Italian (Gorgia Toscana) 235
12. Germanic prosody and consonantal strength 273
13. Slavonic 301
14. Celtic 325
15. Finnish Consonant Gradation 357
16. Nivkh 387
17. Part Three - Analysis: how Lenitition dnd Fortition work
18. From Positions to Transitions: A Contour-Based Account of Lenition 415
19. Constant Clusters in Strong and Weak Positions 447
20. The Coda Mirror, stress and positional parameters 483
21. Markedness, faithfulness, positions, and contexts: Lenition and Fortition in Optimality Theory 519
22. Two directions for lenition 561
23. Backmatter 593