Compensatory Lengthening

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Compensatory Lengthening is written by Darya Kavitskaya and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1136722041 (ISBN 10) and 9781136722042 (ISBN 13).

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.