The interaction between the segmental and the prosodic phonology in the midst of an on-going sound change. Resolving a contradiction in the synchronic phonology of Dutch

dc.contributor.advisor	Jacobs, H.M.G.M.
dc.contributor.advisor	Hout, R.W.N.M. van
dc.contributor.author	Voeten, C.C.
dc.date.issued	2015-06-29
dc.description.abstract	At the surface level, present-day Dutch appears to suffer a contradiction between the segmental and the prosodic phonology with respect to its vowel system. On the one hand, the tense mid vowels [ei,øy,ou] are realized as diphthongs on the segmental level, but on the other hand, these vowels do not behave as diphthongs on the prosodic level, since they fail to attract stress. By revisiting the timeless tenseness-length debate in the phonology of Dutch, and arguing, on multiple independent bases, that both tenseness and length play a role at the underlying level – an option that was hitherto not considered – and showing that these two features are not as correlated as previously thought, my thesis attempts to unify these two observations, thus proposing a resolution to the contradiction.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://theses.ubn.ru.nl/handle/123456789/628
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.thesis.faculty	Faculteit der Letteren	en_US
dc.thesis.specialisation	Researchmaster Language and Communication	en_US
dc.thesis.studyprogramme	Researchmasters	en_US
dc.thesis.type	Researchmaster	en_US
dc.title	The interaction between the segmental and the prosodic phonology in the midst of an on-going sound change. Resolving a contradiction in the synchronic phonology of Dutch	en_US

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