Dutch Studies: Volume 4 Studies in Dutch Phonology

Introduction: The Role of Dutch in Recent Phonological Issues.- Structure Conditions for Initial Position in Standard Dutch.- Word Frequency and Lexical Diffusion in Dialect Borrowing and Phonological Change.- Brabantic Sandhi and the Abstractness Debate.- Morpheme Boundaries and Syllable Boundaries: A Case for Natural Phonology.- The Stress Pattern of Dutch Simplex Words: A First Approximation.- On Vowel Reduction in Dutch.- Dutch Diminutives over easy.- Past Participle Prefix ge- Deletion and the Role of Stress in Dutch Complex Verbs.- Boundaries, Wordclasses, and the Accentuation of Derived Words in Dutch.- Inflectional Aspects of Adjectives in the Dialects of Dutch-speaking Belgium.- Some Theoretical Implications of Stem Alternations in Dutch Diminutives and Plurals.- Egg, Onion, Ouch! On the Representation of Dutch Diphthongs.- The Looking Glass War: On the Role of Hypercorrection in Phonological Change.