TNTL 114

Dirk Boutkan en Maarten Kossmann

Over sjwa-apocope in het Nederlands

Abstract -- The regularity of the deletion of word-final shwa in Dutch has given rise to discussion. In this article the authors argue that we are dealing with a phonetic development, due to which the final shwa of a syntagm (not of a word) is regularly deleted except for the position after d.