Editing Lenition (section)

===Mixed===
Sometimes a particular example of lenition mixes the opening and sonorization pathways. For example, {{IPA|[kʰ]}} may spirantize or open to {{IPA|[x]}}, then voice or sonorize to {{IPA|[ɣ]}}.

Lenition can be seen in [[Canadian English|Canadian]] and [[American English]], where {{IPA|/t/}} and {{IPA|/d/}} soften to a tap {{IPA|[ɾ]}} ([[flapping]]) when not in initial position and followed by an unstressed vowel. For example, both ''rate'' and ''raid'' plus the suffix ''-er'' are pronounced {{IPA|[ˈɹeɪ̯ɾɚ]}}.  The Italian of Central and Southern Italy has a number of lenitions, the most widespread of which is the deaffrication of {{IPA|/t͡ʃ/}} to {{IPA|[ʃ]}} between vowels: post-pausal {{lang|it|cena}} {{IPA|[ˈt͡ʃeːna]}} 'dinner' but post-vocalic {{lang|it|la cena}} {{IPA|[laˈʃeːna]}} 'the dinner'; the name {{lang|it|Luciano}}, although structurally {{IPA|/luˈt͡ʃano/}}, is normally pronounced {{IPA|[luˈʃaːno]}}. In Tuscany, {{IPA|/d͡ʒ/}} likewise is realized {{IPA|[ʒ]}} between vowels, and in typical speech of Central Tuscany, the voiceless stops {{IPA|/p t k/}} in the same position are pronounced respectively {{IPA|[ɸ θ x/h]}}, as in {{IPA|/la kasa/}} → {{IPA|[laˈhaːsa]}} 'the house', {{IPA|/buko/}} → {{IPA|[ˈbuːho]}} 'hole'.