1st Edition

Compensatory Lengthening Phonetics, Phonology, Diachrony

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

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... Read more
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