Compensatory Lengthening II Hasnt been shown that CL is only triggered by moraic Cs in a language where WBP is limited to a subset of the C inventory (Kenstowicz 1994:433) other analyses of compensatory lengthening have been proposed that provide grounded explanations for this phenomenon and do not rely on moraic considerations (Fowler 1983, Blevins and Garrett 1998, Kavitskaya 2002, Campos- Astorkiza 2005) Levin 1989 does Ponapean CL with X slots; shows it cant be done with just moras Conclusions wrt Compensatory Lengthening: Moras are neither necessary (Blevins/Garrett) nor sufficient (Levin) The empirical facts robustly falsify the predictions of MT Subtler predictions of MT havent been tested (see also next )
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