Dutch Studies - Coetsem, Frans Van

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Résumé :
The fourteen papers in this volume Studies in Dutch Phonology were collected by the editors in the course of 1977 and 1978, at the request of the editorial board of Dutch Studies. In their opinion the collection represents a fair cross-section of current research done in the field of phonology both inside and outside the Netherlands, and therefore con? stitutes a very suitable starting point for the new series Dutch Studies of the Intemationale Vereniging voor Neerlandistiek. In the various contributions one will find treated several issues of current phonological interest, such as phonotactic constraints (by Brink), abstractness (by Goyvaerts, Robinson, Tiersma, Trommelen and Zonneveld), stress-assign? ment and vowel-reduction (by Van MarIe and Predota), the interaction between phonology and morphology (by Kooij, De Rooij-Bronkhorst, and Schultink), rule ordering (Taeldeman), and lexical diffusion (Gerritsen and Jansen, and Zonneveld). These issues are discussed in relation to a number of well-known traditional topics of Dutch phonology, such as: affIxal stress-attraction; constraints on consonant-clusters; separable and inseparable verb-forms; stress and vowel reduction in derived vs. non? derived, and 'native' vs. 'foreign' Dutch words; Auslautverhartung and assimilation of voice in obstruent-clusters; regularity and irregularity in open syllable lengthening, diminutive formation, plural formation, and the weakening of intervocalic d; and the properties and phonological represen? tation of diphthongs. (Frans van Coetsem's paper Loan Phonology: the Example of Dutch, originally intended as a contribution to this volume, but not completed as it went to the press, will appear elsewhere.

Sommaire:
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.