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Lee, Sechang. 2010. Revisiting the Middle English Open Syllable Lengthening: A Study of Compensatory Lengthening in Terms of OT-CC. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 35-1, 229-245. The aim I wish to achieve in this article is to provide a new perspective on the Middle English Open Syllable Lengthening by revisiting some previous approaches in the literature. I take as a starting point Hayes’(1989) analysis of the phenomenon where the parasitic delinking is followed by compensatory lengthening. Contrary to his position, I argue that the direction of relinking a stray mora does not have to be postulated as a language-specific restriction. Instead, it can be derived as a natural consequence of the universal constraint stating that the vowel length interacts with stress assignment, without appealing to the notion of stipulating the direction of association language-specifically. In the process, the PREC constraint in the sense of McCarthy(2007) is introduced and turns out to be playing a significant role in accounting for the lengthening behavior of nonhigh vowels in the Middle English period. To make sure that the MEOSL provides a clear evidence in favor of opacity treatment, the fundamental features of my analysis will be compared with those of Bermúdez-Otero(1998)'s. (Sookmyung Women's University)

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