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Due to their unmarked properties, coronal stops often undergo consonantal weakening various consonantal weakenings such as flapping, glottaling and deletion. While both voiceless and voiced coronal stops are subject to such a lenition process in a very similar manner, it has been argued that voiced coronal stops do not participate in deletion, particularly when occuring after a coronal nasal. This study explores patterns of lenition in voiced coronal stops in such an environment. The results showed that coronal stops do undergo deletion, suggesting that the unmarked property of [coronal] applies to both voiceless and voiced stops in the environment. Furthermore, this consonantal lenition pattern is more prevalent across word boundaries than within a word. Word frequency is found to be one of the most significant factors with low-frequency words exhibiting greater resistance to consonantal weakening. Gender and age, however, have minimal influence on consonantal weakening.
