Fortition
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /fɔːˈtɪʃən/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fortition is a noun meaning (phonetics, phonology) A sound change in which a consonant becomes more fortis.
Meaning
(phonetics, phonology) A sound change in which a consonant becomes more fortis.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) Casual choice; fortuitous selection; hazard.
Example Sentences
No rotation; no appointment by lot; no mode of election operating in the spirit of fortition or rotation, can be generally good in a government conversant in extensive objects.
Donegan (1985: 37–38) offers the following description of fortitions and lenitions. Fortitions are listener-oriented processes, which increase phonetic properties of phonemes. They strengthen the properties of an individual segment by emphasizing certain phonetic features, sometimes at the expense of other features within the segment.
2011, Matthew Gordon, 39: Stress: Phonotactic and Phonetic Evidence, Marc van Oostendorp, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth V. Hume, Keren Rice (editors), The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, Volume II: Suprasegmental and Prosodic Phonology, page 924, Typically, stressed syllables trigger qualitative fortition and/or lengthening, whereas unstressed syllables are associated with lenition and/or shortening.
Word Forms
- fortitions
Antonyms for fortition
Common opposites include lenition.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fortis, fortilice, fortin, fortississimo, fortification, fricatization.
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