Early shortening of geminates with compensatory lengthening in Indo-Aryan

1970 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-178
Author(s):  
R. L. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Sound Change ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
History Of ◽  
Compensatory Lengthening

Throughout the history of Indo-Aryan the tendency towards a particular sound-change might continue to be active over a long period of time, being manifested first in words of frequent use or lesser import or where other surrounding phonetic conditions favoured the change and subsequently appearing in particular areas throughout the general vocabulary.

scholarly journals Compensatory Lengthening Without Moras: A Study in Phonologization

2000 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Jonathan Barnes ◽  
Darya Kavitskaya
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
General Session ◽  
Compensatory Lengthening

Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Aspect (2000)

scholarly journals Compensatory Lengthening in OT and DOT: Loss of Dorsal Fricatives in Middle
or Early Modern English

2019 ◽  
pp. 47-61
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Kleban
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Optimality Theory ◽  
Syllable Weight ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
Working Solution ◽  
Vowel Lengthening ◽  
Compensatory Lengthening ◽  
Lexical Phonology

The loss of dorsal fricatives in English held significant consequences for the adjacent tautosyllabic vowels, which underwent Compensatory Lengthening in order to preserve a syllable weight. While the process appears to be regular in descriptive terms, its evaluation handled within standard Optimality Theory highlights the ineffectiveness of the framework to parse both the segment deletion and two weight-related processes: Weight- by-Position and vowel lengthening due to mora preservation. As Optimality Theory has failed to analyse the data in a compelling manner, the introduction of derivation, benefitting from the legacy of Lexical Phonology, seems inevitable. The working solution is provided by Derivational Optimality Theory, which assumes a restrictive use of intermediate stages throughout the evaluation.

Phonology and Phonetics

2020 ◽  
pp. 11-29
Author(s):  
Michael J. Kenstowicz
Keyword(s):  
Vowel Harmony ◽  
Prosodic Structure ◽  
Phonological Variation ◽  
African Languages ◽  
Hiatus Resolution ◽  
Compensatory Lengthening ◽  
Nasal Consonant

This chapter focuses on the contributions African languages have made to phonological theory. The first section reviews some of the highlights in the development of autosegmental representations, concentrating on the interface of sound segments with prosodic structure. It is shown how one–many and many–one relations between phonemes and syllable positions elucidate the behavior of geminate consonants and the compensatory lengthening that accompanies processes of devocalization and prenasalization. The sections that follow consider the African contribution to studies concerning the scope and limits of phonological variation. Typologies of vowel harmony, vowel hiatus resolution and nasal-consonant coalescence, syllabification, reduplication, and phonological phrasing are surveyed.

scholarly journals Why does the word dcéra (‘daughter’) contain a long é?

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 298-307
Author(s):  
Siniša Habijanec
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Influence ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Short Vowel ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Compensatory Lengthening

Abstract The paper aims to explain the origin of the long é in the Slovak word dcéra ‘daughter’, which is the only word of the original lexical layer that has a long é in its root. Its length is difficult to explain by comparative Slavic accentology since relevant languages generally show a short vowel in this position. Another peculiarity of this word is the fact that é did not undergo the Central Slovak diphthongization that otherwise regularly occurs after c. The author offers a solution in the cultural influence of Czech, which Slovaks had been using as a written language for centuries. It is argued that the original Common Slavic word *dъťi had been lost in Slovak and replaced by a word *děvъka, while dcera was introduced into the Slovak vernacular through Czech religious texts. The initial Czech graphic cluster dc- had been realized as a geminated [cː] by Slovak priests, the pronunciation of which was interpreted as compensatory lengthening of the following vowel, and this length was subsequently phonologized. The lengthening of e and consequent phonologization could be linked to the spread of Czech printed books, so it must be posterior to the Central Slovak diphthongization.

Geminates and weight-manipulating phonology in Chuukese (Trukese)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Davis
Keyword(s):  
Theoretic Analysis ◽  
Syllable Weight ◽  
Minimal Word ◽  
Compensatory Lengthening

One of the main controversies regarding the phonology of geminates is whether geminates are best represented as being underlyingly moraic or as being a single consonant linked to two C-slots. One language that has played a major role in the discussion of geminate representation is the Micronesian language Chuukese, also known as Trukese. After reviewing the arguments for the moraic representation of Chuukese geminates, this chapter develops a comprehensive optimality-theoretic analysis of Chuukese quantity-manipulating phonology that includes an analysis of initial geminates, final mora deletion, syllable weight, the minimal word effect, compensatory lengthening, geminate throwback, and cases of variation.

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