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 …

1. In a 1979 paper on compensatory lengthening (CL), DE CHENE and ANDERSON (D & A)
make two major claims: 2 (a) CL is one of the many terms of traditional historical linguistics …

This paper presents a non-linear analysis of Compensatory lengthening in Turkish, within
the framework of CV Phonology, developed by Clements and Keyser (1981) and (1983). In …

The class of phonetic changes in which the loss of a consonant is accompanied by the
development of distinctive length in a nearby vowel has traditionally been designated by the …

This paper examines the patterns of durational adjustment of mono-morphemic four-syllable
words in Standard Chinese when different constituents of the word are focused for …

Compensatory lengthening occurs when the featural content of a nucleus or moraic coda is
deleted, or becomes reaffiliated with a nonmoraic position—typically an onset—and the …

Despite the pervasiveness of lenition in the sound systems of natural language, this class of
patterns has eluded adequate characterization in previous theories of phonology …

Friulian, among the Romance languages, presents the peculiarity of pervasively making
phonological use of contrastive vowel length.* This is manifested in a well developed …

Lengthening of segments at the end of prosodic domains is commonly considered a
universal phenomenon, but language-specific variation has also been reported, specifically …

This book analyzes 153 languages from a large variety of families to establish a previously
unexplored relationship between phonetically conditioned sound changes such as lenitions …