Lengthening of vowel sounds in place of a deleted consonant
Sound change and alternation
Metathesis
Quantitative metathesis
Lenition
Consonant gradation
Consonant voicing and devoicing
Assibilation
Spirantization
L-vocalization
Debuccalization
Fortition
Epenthesis
Prothesis
Paragoge
Unpacking
Vowel breaking
Elision
Apheresis
Syncope
Apocope
Haplology
Cluster reduction
Transphonologization
Compensatory lengthening
Nasalization
Tonogenesis
Floating tone
Assimilation
Fusion
Coarticulation
Palatalization
Velarization
Labialization
Final devoicing
Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut)
Consonant harmony
Dissimilation
Sandhi
Liaison, linking R
Consonant mutation
Tone sandhi
Vowel hiatus
Synalepha
Elision
Crasis
Synaeresis and diaeresis
Synizesis
Other types
Apophony
Affrication
Gemination
Clipping
Fronting
Raising
Betacism
Iotacism
Fusion
Merger
Compensatory lengthening
Monophthongization
Rhotacism
Rhinoglottophilia
Sulcalization
Shm-reduplication
Consonant mutation
Vowel shift
Chain shift
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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]
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Hayes, Bruce (1989). "Compensatory Lengthening in Moraic Phonology". Linguistic Inquiry. 20 (2). The Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 253–306.
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§ Brackets and transcription delimiters. Compensatorylengthening in phonology and historical linguistics is the lengthening of a vowel sound that happens upon...
the consonant was lengthened, so that the syllable would continue to be heavy. This sound change is called compensatorylengthening, because the vowel...
vowel before the consonant cluster, causing the vowel to lengthen by compensatorylengthening. PIE VsR or VRs → Attic/Ionic-Doric-Boeotian VVR. PIE VsR...
except in the accusative plural of ἰχθύς, where it lengthens the preceding υ by compensatorylengthening, yielding ἰχθῦς. A peculiar subset of this declension...
mother' In certain Doric dialects (Severe Doric), *e and *o lengthen by compensatorylengthening or contraction to eta or omega, in contrast to Attic ei and...
a vowel and preceding another consonant regularly elided, with compensatorylengthening of the vowel. Latin hospitāle → Old French (h)ostel → Modern French...
the late 17th. Loss of the fricatives was accompanied by some compensatorylengthening or diphthongization of preceding vowels. In some cases, the velar...
Artemis Compensatorylengthening of vowel before cluster of sonorant (r, l, n, m, w, sometimes y) and s, after deletion of s. ⁓ some Aeolic: compensatory lengthening...
/h/ and the subsequent lengthening of a vowel or consonant, which kept the syllable the same length (compensatorylengthening). PIE *h₁ésmi → Proto-Greek...
words beginning with vowels) and Italian raddoppiamento fonosintattico (lengthening of initial consonants of words after certain words ending in vowels)...
liquids and nasals in early Irish that were not simplified with compensatorylengthening gained a schwa between the sonorant and the rest of the cluster...
past participles scrīptus and lēctus (likely also with a type of compensatorylengthening). Cases before /s/ are also numerous, as can be noticed by comparing...
from ē in words borrowed from Latin. /e₂ː/ generally stems from compensatorylengthening of short *e because of loss of the following consonant (in certain...
characterised the transition from Middle Indo-Aryan to Hindi are: Compensatorylengthening of vowels preceding geminate consonants, sometimes with spontaneous...
diphthong ει, ου (ei, ou). A spurious diphthong has two origins: from compensatorylengthening of short ε, ο (e, o) after deletion of a consonant or contraction...
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