The internally layered foot in Dutch

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3989756
AutoresRené Kager (0000-0002-5811-839X, Utrecht University, autor correspondente), Violeta Martínez-Paricio (0000-0003-3616-128X, Universitat de València)
Ano2018
Volume56
Fascículo1
Páginas69-114
Data de publicação2018-01-26
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling-2017-0037
OpenAlexW2783332682
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências 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