Compensatory Lengthening by Kavitskaya Darya;Horn Laurence;

Author:Kavitskaya, Darya;Horn, Laurence; [Kavitskaya, Darya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2022-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

1 Contra Minkova (1982), Lass (1985), Hayes (1989), and Kim (1993), it is suggested by Hoek (1986) and de Chene & Anderson (1979) and convincingly argued by Lahiri & Dresher (1999) that the vowels in stressed syllables in Middle English were not lengthened as a result of CL caused by the loss of final schwa, but rather underwent a process of open syllable lengthening. 2 CVCV CV:C alternations are present in the synchronie grammars of Trukese, and other Austronesian languages, but the historical source for the alternations in question is a bimoraic minimal size condition, which will be discussed in section 4.5. (1–4) are representative examples of CVCV CL from Friulian (Romance), Serbo-Croatian (Slavic), Hungarian (Finno-Ugric), and Lama (Gur) respectively.

In Friulian (1), all unstressed vowels except the low vowel a were lost word-finally, giving rise to the lengthening of preceding accented vowels. (1a) illustrates the correlation of vowel loss with vowel lengthening, (1b) shows an example of a non-deleting final a, and (1c) demonstrates that there is no lengthening of unstressed vowels with the loss of final vowels, that is, after the loss of o in *úmido, i in [úmit] remains short.

Friulian (Hualde 1990)

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