| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Headedness of syllables | p. 1 |
| The Headedness Hypothesis (HH) | p. 4 |
| Theoretical background | p. 10 |
| Syllable structure | p. 10 |
| Feature geometry | p. 13 |
| Specification and underspecification | p. 16 |
| Skeletal tier | p. 17 |
| Model of the grammar | p. 18 |
| Optimality Theory | p. 19 |
| Data | p. 23 |
| Organisation of the book | p. 23 |
| Vowel quality and rhyme structure in Dutch | p. 29 |
| Introduction | p. 29 |
| The Dutch vowel system | p. 30 |
| Tenseness versus length: The case of Dutch | p. 32 |
| The argument for length | p. 32 |
| The arguments against length | p. 36 |
| A theory based on the feature lax | p. 44 |
| [lax] and syllable structure in vowel harmony | p. 46 |
| Tenseness and branchingness in Dutch | p. 53 |
| Formalization in Optimality Theory | p. 54 |
| Some more arguments for the length of A-vowels | p. 56 |
| Tenseness cannot be defined in a satisfactory way phonetically | p. 56 |
| Minimality requires branching | p. 57 |
| A-vowels form the domain of tonal contour in Limburg Dutch | p. 58 |
| Richness of the base | p. 60 |
| Conclusion | p. 63 |
| Historical overview | p. 64 |
| Dutch structuralism | p. 65 |
| Pre-generative literature | p. 67 |
| Early generative grammar | p. 70 |
| Bisegmental analyses in generative phonology | p. 71 |
| Tilburg Dutch and Standard Dutch vowel length | p. 77 |
| Details in the Standard Dutch vowel system | p. 77 |
| Diphthongs | p. 78 |
| Ambisyllabicity | p. 83 |
| r-lengthening | p. 85 |
| The phonetic nature of the tensing feature | p. 89 |
| Extrasyllabicity and catalexis | p. 94 |
| A dialect with real length: Tilburg Dutch | p. 101 |
| The vowel system | p. 102 |
| Why only lax vowels can be long | p. 107 |
| Vowel shortening | p. 108 |
| Analysis | p. 113 |
| Long vowels in other Brabant dialects | p. 122 |
| The limited distribution of long vowels | p. 123 |
| Conclusion | p. 125 |
| Derivation of the Dutch vowel system | p. 125 |
| Conclusion | p. 129 |
| Derived schwa in Dutch | p. 131 |
| Introduction | p. 131 |
| Properties of r-schwa | p. 135 |
| Word-initial position | p. 138 |
| Word-final position | p. 141 |
| Vowel quality | p. 144 |
| Stress | p. 147 |
| Closed Syllables | p. 151 |
| Style registers | p. 152 |
| Properties of e-schwa | p. 155 |
| The epenthetic vowel is schwa | p. 155 |
| E-schwa does not occur at the end of the word | p. 160 |
| E-schwa only occurs in the last syllable of the word | p. 161 |
| Word-internal contexts in which e-schwa does not occur | p. 163 |
| Style registers | p. 166 |
| Summary and conclusion | p. 166 |
| Dutch U-schwa | p. 169 |
| Introduction | p. 169 |
| Properties of u-schwa | p. 170 |
| Syllable weight | p. 170 |
| U-schwa does not occur word-initially | p. 171 |
| Some other segmental effects | p. 173 |
| The onset of schwa-syllables | p. 175 |
| The coda of schwa-headed syllables | p. 177 |
| Degenerate and schwa-headed syllables | p. 183 |
| Obligatory versus optional epenthesis | p. 186 |
| Again on complex onsets | p. 187 |
| Schwa surrounded by identical consonants | p. 192 |
| Schwa after ng | p. 193 |
| U-schwa and stress | p. 195 |
| Adjacency between schwa and full vowels | p. 197 |
| Complementary distribution of u-schwa and e-schwa | p. 199 |
| Schwa-deletion | p. 200 |
| Conclusion | p. 203 |
| Previous analyses of u-schwa | p. 205 |
| Reduction Theory | p. 206 |
| Epenthesis Theory | p. 208 |
| No-Syllable Theory | p. 209 |
| Remaining problems | p. 218 |
| Final Devoicing | p. 218 |
| Superheavy syllables before schwa | p. 220 |
| Post-lexical u-schwa | p. 221 |
| Umlaut | p. 223 |
| Conclusion | p. 226 |
| Table of properties | p. 227 |
| Schwa in French and Norwegian | p. 229 |
| Introduction | p. 229 |
| French | p. 230 |
| E-schwa is the epenthetic vowel | p. 232 |
| E-schwa does not occur at the end of the word | p. 234 |
| U-schwa must occur in an open syllable | p. 237 |
| Laxing in the head of a foot | p. 240 |
| U-schwa does not occur at the beginning of the word | p. 246 |
| Consonant clusters before schwa cannot be possible complex onsets | p. 247 |
| Schwa is stressless | p. 248 |
| Schwa cannot occur next to a vowel | p. 249 |
| Schwa deletion | p. 252 |
| A parameter | p. 256 |
| Conclusion plus a note on learnability | p. 259 |
| Norwegian | p. 261 |
| Schwa is the epenthetic vowel | p. 262 |
| Epenthetic schwa does not occur at the end of the word | p. 263 |
| Schwa must occur in an open syllable | p. 264 |
| Schwa does not occur at the beginning of the word | p. 266 |
| Consonant clusters before schwa cannot be possible complex onsets | p. 267 |
| Alternation with degenerate syllables | p. 270 |
| Conclusion and another note on learnability | p. 271 |
| Conclusion | p. 272 |
| A vowel-glide alternation in Rotterdam Dutch | p. 273 |
| Introduction | p. 273 |
| The second person clitic | p. 278 |
| Hiatus | p. 280 |
| Hiatus after high vowels | p. 283 |
| After coronal stops | p. 286 |
| Third person singular clitic | p. 297 |
| The diminutive suffix | p. 298 |
| Sievers's Law | p. 304 |
| Other issues | p. 308 |
| Clitics and the diminutive in Standard Dutch | p. 308 |
| Lexical forms | p. 310 |
| The underlying form of 2S is not /i/ | p. 314 |
| High vowel followed by schwa | p. 316 |
| 1st person plural clitic | p. 316 |
| Conclusion | p. 319 |
| The projection constraint family | p. 321 |
| Introduction | p. 321 |
| Projection and weakness | p. 322 |
| The foot level | p. 326 |
| The N level | p. 331 |
| The rhyme | p. 332 |
| Nuclear level | p. 333 |
| Features | p. 335 |
| Constraints conflicting with projection and weakness | p. 337 |
| Conclusion | p. 338 |
| Appendices | |
| Constraints and families of constraints | p. 341 |
| Prosodic well-formedness | p. 341 |
| Syllable well-formedness | p. 341 |
| Foot well-formedness | p. 343 |
| Word well-formedness | p. 345 |
| Autosegmental representations | p. 347 |
| Feature cooccurrence and licensing | p. 349 |
| Parsing | p. 349 |
| Constraints against unnecessary structure | p. 350 |
| Ad hoc constraint | p. 351 |
| Arguments for ranking | p. 353 |
| Topology of the Dutch lexicon | p. 353 |
| Topology of the Dutch postlexical phonology | p. 357 |
| Ranking schemes | p. 359 |
| Topology of the Standard Dutch lexicon | p. 360 |
| Topology of the Standard Dutch postlexical phonology | p. 361 |
| Topology of the French phonology | p. 362 |
| Topology of the Rotterdam Dutch phonology | p. 363 |
| References | p. 365 |
| Language index | p. 391 |
| Subject index | p. 393 |
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