compensatory lengthening (English, noun)
expansion: compensatory lengthening (countable and uncountable, plural compensatory lengthenings)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The lengthening of a vowel sound which occurs when a following consonant is lost, regarded as an extreme form of fusion; (countable) an instance of this.
tags: uncountable
Forms:
form: compensatory lengthenings
tags: plural