Compensatory Lengthening - Phonetics, Phonology, Diachrony

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

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;

About the author

Darya Kavitskaya, Edited by Laurence Horn Yale University

Summary

This book examines the phonological phenomenon of compensatory lengthening, wherein the loss of a consonant or vowel triggers a compensatory lengthening of another phonetic element.

Product details

• Authors: Darya Kavitskaya
• Assisted by: Laurence Horn (Editor)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.04.2002
• EAN: 9780415941600
• ISBN: 978-0-415-94160-0
• No. of pages: 238
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 501 g
• Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics