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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=linguistics">linguistics</a>, <b>lenition</b> is a <a href="page.php?w=sound_change">sound change</a> that alters <a href="page.php?w=consonant">consonant</a>s, making them "weaker" in some way. The word lenition means 'softening' or 'weakening' (from <a href="page.php?w=Latin">Latin</a> <i>lenis</i> 'weak'). Lenition can happen both <a href="page.php?w=synchronic_analysis">synchronically</a> (within a language at a particular point in time) and <a href="page.php?w=historical_linguistics">diachronically</a> (as a language</p><p>
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