1st Edition

Compensatory Lengthening Phonetics, Phonology, Diachrony

Edited By Laurence Horn, Darya Kavitskaya Copyright 2002
    236 Pages
    by Routledge

    236 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 2002. This volume is part of the 'Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics' series, and focuses on phonetics, phonology and diachrony of compensatory lengthening. The term compensatory lengthening (CL) refers to a set of phonological phenomena wherein the disappearance of one element of a representation is accompanied by a corresponding lengthening of another element. This study focuses on descriptive and formal similarities and divergences between CL of vowels triggered by consonant and by vowel loss.

    Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Conservation Approaches to Compensatory Lengthening; Chapter 3 Conditions on CVC Compensatory Lengthening; Chapter 4 Conditions on CVCV Compensatory Lengthening; Chapter 5 Notes on Synchronic Compensatory Lengthening; Chapter 6 Summary and Conclusions;

    Biography

    Darya Kavitskaya, Edited by Laurence Horn Yale University