[t]→[h]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 3/5

Debuccalization Lenition Scouse Celtic Germanic

Voiceless alveolar plosive to Voiceless glottal fricative

A radical loss of place of articulation, debuccalization reduces a crisp alveolar stop to a simple puff of air from the glottis. It's often a sign of extreme lenition in specific phonetic environments.

Phonetic Effects

Debuccalization, Lenition

Language Examples

Scouse English Germanic

it→ih— Word-final /t/ frequently debuccalizes to /h/ in Liverpool speech.

Irish (Gaelic) Celtic

tana→thana— Lenition of /t/ results in /h/ (written as 'th').

Related Transformations

Reverse Partial lenition Common debuccalization

More Germanic Shifts

[a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ʔ] — Glottalization [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction [æ] → [ɛ] — Vowel Raising

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