Compensatory lengthening in Koine Greek

1. What is compensatory lengthening examples?
2. What is compensatory lengthening in English?
3. What is compensatory lengthening in Latin?
4. What is lengthening in phonetics?

What is compensatory lengthening examples?

For example, in the Middle English of Chaucer's time the word night was phonemically /nixt/; later the /x/ was lost, but the /i/ was lengthened to /iː/ to compensate, causing the word to be pronounced /niːt/. (Later the /iː/ became /aɪ/ by the Great Vowel Shift.)

What is compensatory lengthening in English?

Compensatory lengthening occurs when the featural content of a nucleus or moraic coda is deleted, or becomes reaffiliated with a nonmoraic position — typically an onset — and the vacated mora, instead of being lost, is retained with new content (Hayes 1989).

What is compensatory lengthening in Latin?

Compensatory lengthening (CL) is often recorded as a sound change from one stage of a language to another. For example, at some point in the history of Latin, the consonant /s/ was deleted before sonorant consonants.

What is lengthening in phonetics?

Open syllable lengthening, in linguistics, is the process by which short vowels become long in an open syllable. It occurs in many languages at a phonetic or allophonic level, and no meaningful distinction in length is made.