Compensatory Lengthening

In Spanish, monophthongization took place, but not before

are hecho [ecol and noche [nocel.

and (le) below:

Stem Present (-u) Past (-ta)

(1) a. mat-'wait' matSu matta

b. sin-'die' sinu sinda

d. kak-'write' kaku kaita

Example (le) shows additionally that progressive voicing

case of compensatory lengthening. Certain Old English

with concomitant lengthening of those vowels. For the West

Saxon examples given below, both forms with 9. and forms

b. *thegnaz 'young man, thane' -pegn ~ -pen

c. *magadin-'young person (dim.)' ~gden ~ ~den

Now, given the evidence of other Germanic languages, the

Proverbs (Campbell 1959, section 266). Thus, for the

examples above, we have evidence for a diphthongal stage

through which the vowel nuclei passed before they were

reanalyzed as long monophthongs. 4

(3) a. talawcii 'poverty' talaka 'poor person'

To show the correspondences produced by the operation of

innovative forms from the standard language with more con-

Standard Dialectal

b. sawroo sabroo 'mosquito'

There are instances in Hausa where Klingenheben's Law

lengthening. Consider the following example:

Singular

(5) a. zuuciyaa

Plural

zukaataa 'heart'

and the k has dropped with concomitant lengthening of the

preceding vowel.