Een aan het Frans ontleend principe van fonologische organisatie in het Zuid-Nederlands. ; : [A principle in the phonological organization of Southern Dutch that was borrowed from French]

This article addresses a hitherto unnoticed contrast between the phonologies of Northern and Southern Dutch. This contrast concerns two phenomena, viz. the resyllabification of a morpheme-final consonant in the next syllable and the deletion of vowels, especially in pronouns and articles, when they can cliticize to other words. It is shown that both phenomena can be analyzed as the result of that fact that Southern Dutch, just like French, does not bother to make morpheme boundaries and syllable boundaries coincide. Next, it is shown that a classical input driven rule oriented phonological the... Mehr ...