The internally layered foot in Dutch

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3989756
AutoresRené Kager (0000-0002-5811-839X, Utrecht University, autor de correspondencia), Violeta Martínez-Paricio (0000-0003-3616-128X, Universitat de València)
Año2018
Volumen56
Número1
Páginas69-114
Fecha de publicación2018-01-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling-2017-0037
OpenAlexW2783332682
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas43

Recent metrical studies have proposed that, under certain circumstances, a weak syllable may be adjoined to a binary foot, giving rise to a minimally recursive foot. Adding to a growing body of research from metrical stress and foot-conditioned phenomena in various languages, the goals of this paper are twofold. First, we aim at providing empirical evidence for internally layered feet based on the distribution of three foot-conditioned processes of Dutch: vowel reduction, glottal stop /ʔ/ insertion and /h/ licensing/deletion. Second, we explore a less studied theoretical and descriptive advantage of internally layered feet: their potential to predict phonological strength distinctions that go beyond the traditional weak vs. strong dichotomy. In support of this view, we will argue that all three above-mentioned foot-based processes of Dutch distinguish between two types of unstressed syllables. We will demonstrate that the metrical representation that best captures this dual patterning of unstressed syllables necessitates internally layered feet

Cognitive psychology · Foot (prosody) · Linguistics · Optimality theory · Phonology · Political science · Representation (politics) · Stress (linguistics) · Syllable · Vowel · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Speech Recognition and Synthesis