Darya Kavitskaya 
Compensatory Lengthening [EPUB ebook] 
Phonetics, Phonology, Diachrony

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.