The internally layered foot in Dutch

Bibliographic Data

ID3989756
AuthorsRené Kager (0000-0002-5811-839X, Utrecht University, corresponding author), Violeta Martínez-Paricio (0000-0003-3616-128X, Universitat de València)
Year2018
Volume56
Issue1
Pages69-114
Publication date2018-01-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling-2017-0037
OpenAlexW2783332682
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited43

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