[ð]→[∅]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 4/5
Voiced dental fricative to Empty sound / Zero
The elision of [ð] is the final stage of dental lenition. It is particularly common in Romance languages, where an intervocalic dental stop first weakens to a fricative and then disappears entirely.
Phonetic Effects
Elision, Lenition
Language Examples
Related Transformations
More Romance Shifts
Sources & References
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