Which consequence results when a laryngeal consonant weakens through lenition?

💡 Explanation

Tonogenesis may occur because the loss of a laryngeal consonant's articulatory features are reinterpreted prosodically, using fundamental frequency with **compensatory lengthening**. Consequently, tone emerges rather than weakening morphology itself because of specific phonetic shifts.

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