compensatory lengthening

English

Noun

compensatory lengthening (countable and uncountable, plural compensatory lengthenings)

1. (phonology) The lengthening of a vowel sound which occurs when a following consonant is lost, an extreme form of fusion exhibited for example by many non-rhotic British dialects of English, which drop the /ɹ/ from /ɑɹt/ but compensatorily lengthen the /ɑ/, resulting in /ɑːt/ ("art").

Derived terms

• compensatorily lengthen

Translations

lengthening of a vowel which occurs when a following consonant is lost

• Catalan: allargament compensatori m
• Dutch: compensatierekking f
• Finnish: kompensoiva pidennys
• French: allongement compensatoire m
• German: Ersatzdehnung f

• Greek: αναπληρωματική έκταση (el) f (anapliromatikí éktasi), αντέκταση (el) f (antéktasi)
• Polish: wzdłużenie zastępcze n
• Romanian: prelungire compensatoare f
• Russian: замести́тельное удлине́ние n (zamestítelʹnoje udlinénije), компенса́торное удлине́ние n (kompensátornoje udlinénije)
• Spanish: alargamiento compensatorio m