TNTL 110

Wim Zonneveld

Fonologie van het Nederlands: een overzichtsartikel

Abstract - This article aims to provide a (non- exhaustive) overview of the 'state of the art' in the study of Dutch phonology in the Netherlands. Strikingly, this field of study is homogeneous to a considerable degree, since most of its researchers are involved in the theoretical framework of generative phonology. Separate sections deal with the major branches of this view: metrical phonology (stress and syllable structure), autosegmental phonology (assimilation), lexical phonology (phonology-morphology interface), and prosodic phonology (sandhi). A final section concludes that this linguistic area is highly internationalised, but concentrated in departments of general linguistics and modern languages rather than Dutch language and linguistics.