This phenomenon is called " compensatory lengthening ."
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In Votic this triggers compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel.
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The preceding vowel received compensatory lengthening and was nasalised:
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Loss of the fricatives was accompanied by some compensatory lengthening or diphthongization of preceding vowels.
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This is called compensatory lengthening, lengthening that occurs after the elision of a sound.
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The nasal consonant disappeared, sometimes causing nasalization and compensatory lengthening of the vowel before it.
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2006 . Sound Change and Analogy : The Synchronic Reflexes of the Second Compensatory Lengthening in Ancient Greek Dialects.
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Only when an / n / disappeared with compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel did the spirant law itself result in vowel alternation.
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Phonological processes in Hawaiian include palatalization and deletion of consonants and the raising, diphthongization, deletion, and compensatory lengthening of vowels.
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The ending always changes to, except in the accusative plural of, where it lengthens the preceding by compensatory lengthening, yielding.
