Back إطالة تعويضية Arabic Allargament compensatori Catalan Ersatzdehnung German Αντέκταση Greek Alargamiento compensatorio Spanish کشش جبرانی Persian Allongement compensatoire French Allungamento di compenso Italian 代償延長 Japanese 보상적 장음화 Korean
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Compensatory lengthening in phonology and historical linguistics is the lengthening of a vowel sound that happens upon the loss of a following consonant, usually in the syllable coda, or of a vowel in an adjacent syllable. Lengthening triggered by consonant loss may be considered an extreme form of fusion (Crowley 1997:46). Both types may arise from speakers' attempts to preserve a word's moraic count.[1]
- ^ Hayes, Bruce (1989). "Compensatory Lengthening in Moraic Phonology". Linguistic Inquiry. 20 (2). The Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 253–306.