Dutch Reduction Domains: Between Syllables and Feet

This paper proposes that Dutch has a separate prosodic domain that encodes the difference between reduced and unreduced vowels: the Reduction Domain (see also van der Hulst & Moortgat 1980 for a similar proposal). This proposal is supported by evidence from morphotactics and vowel reduction. I argue that Reduction Domains allow for a superior account of the morphotactics of underived verb and adjective stems in Dutch (Trommelen 1989). I also show how the Reduction Domain yields an alternative account of restrictions on (optional) vowel reduction in Dutch (Kager 1989; van Oostendorp 1995).... Mehr ...