Phonological and Phonetic Databases at the Meertens Institute

Vowel deletion as mora usurpation: the case of Yine

“…The analysis I propose is implemented in coloured containment, a version of containment-based OT. It integrates the assumption of containment that defined the very first version of OT in Prince & Smolensky (1993) with the assumption of morphological colours (van Oostendorp 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, Revithiadou 2007).…”

“…An assumption that is not bound to containment theory and is actually implicit in many analyses is the assumption of morphological ‘colours’ (van Oostendorp 2006). It states that every morpheme has its own specific colour (or index), which allows the identification of all elements belonging to this morpheme.…”

Phonology and morphology in Dutch indefinite determiner syncretism: Spatial and quantitative perspectives

“…The resulting sample included 688 total locations, of which 613 were transcribed; this paper focuses on the 51 locations in the Dutch province of North Brabant, each of which is represented by a single speaker from that location. Over 70% of the subjects completing the questionnaire were male, with a mean age of 61.7 (Van Oostendorp, forthcoming:3). Unsurprisingly given this demographic and the fact that most of the locations are rural, the speakers in the sample also have low levels of educational attainment.…”

Apparent exceptions to final devoicing in High Prussian: A metrical analysis

“…This metrical approach to final devoicing in High Prussian is part of a larger research program that investigates the role of metrical representations in the analysis of phonological alternations, which is sometimes referred to as contrastive metrical structure (Iosad 2016, Köhnlein 2016, among others). The representational tools employed in this paper are in line with previous metrical analyses of variation in the application of final devoicing (van Oostendorp 2006 on morphologically conditioned exceptions to final devoicing in Dutch dialects; van Oostendorp 2015 on final devoicing in French), tonal accent (Köhnlein 2011, 2016, 2017, Hermans 2012, Kehrein 2017 for Franconian; Iosad 2015 for Scottish Gaelic; Iosad 2016 for Danish; Morén-Duolljá 2013 for Swedish), and interactions of syllable structure and vowel quality (Botma & van Oostendorp 2012 for Dutch).…”

“…Another possibility would be to derive morphological alternations via mora affixation along the lines of Colored Containment Theory, as proposed in, for example, van Oostendorp 2006 or Trommer & Zimmermann 2014. For morphological alternations, one could argue that an affixal mora would not be allowed to associate with stem segments, and would therefore be forced to create an empty nucleus at the right edge of the word.…”