The Typology and Modelling of Obstruent Lenition and Fortition Processes jellemzők

The author of this volume attempts to establish a link between the notions of lenition and fortition on the one hand, and the implicational hierarchy of obstruents on the other, through the property of sonority. Earlier theories of lenition and fortition are critically assessed and the typological patterning of obstruent systems is given thorough treatment.