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The purpose of this paper is to analyse compensatory vowel lengthening with /h/-deletion in Old English by employing the framework of Moraic Phonology(Hayes 1986). In Old English, deletion of /h/between wowels and sonorants triggers compensatory lengthening of a preceding vowel. In this paper, I show that moraic phonology can account for the phenomenon in a straightforward way. Specifically, I claim that, compared with CV phonology (Clements and Keyser 1983), moraic phonology can provide a more satisfactory account of compensatory vowel engthening.