Editing Liquid consonant (section)

=== Other types of phonological change ===
Liquids can often be the result of [[lenition]],<ref name=":72" /> the change of a consonant towards characteristics that are typical of vowels, making it "weaker". They are also likely to become [[vowel]]s or [[Glide consonant|glides]], a process known as vocalisation.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Morén-Duolljá |first=Bruce |date=2011-04-28 |title=Vowel Place |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444335262.wbctp0019 |journal=The Blackwell Companion to Phonology |pages=1–25 |doi=10.1002/9781444335262.wbctp0019|isbn=978-1-4051-8423-6 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> See, for example, the pronunciation of Spanish {{IPA|/ɾ/}} as {{IPA|[j]}} in the [[Cibao]] region of the [[Dominican Republic]] at the end of a syllable: [[standard Spanish]] {{IPA|/muˈxeɾ/}} is optionally pronounced as {{IPA|[muˈxej]}} in [[Cibao|Cibaeño]] Spanish.<ref name=":12" />