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.advisorJacobs, H.M.G.M.
dc.contributor.advisorHout, R.W.N.M. van
dc.contributor.authorVoeten, C.C.
dc.date.issued2015-06-29
dc.description.abstractAt 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.urihttp://theses.ubn.ru.nl/handle/123456789/628
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.thesis.facultyFaculteit der Letterenen_US
dc.thesis.specialisationResearchmaster Language and Communicationen_US
dc.thesis.studyprogrammeResearchmastersen_US
dc.thesis.typeResearchmasteren_US
dc.titleThe 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 Dutchen_US
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