Journal article
Rational phonological lengthening in spoken Dutch
Abstract
Dutch allows optional schwa insertion between a liquid and obstruent in words like film/filəm ("film") and dorp/dorəp ("village"), lengthening the word by one syllable. This epenthesis is productive and widespread, and is understood to be a phonological rather than phonetic process. A corpus analysis shows that a speaker's choice between the variant forms is influenced by probability: words that are less frequent or less probable given their …
Authors
Tily H; Kuperman V
Journal
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 132, No. 6, pp. 3935–3940
Publisher
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
Publication Date
December 1, 2012
DOI
10.1121/1.4765071
ISSN
0001-4966