{"content":[{"text":"Abstract \n In Dutch, hiatuses can be resolved with two mechanisms: the insertion of glottal elements and the \n insertion of transitory glides. The distribution of those two mechanisms is different in hiatuses \n across the boundaries of prosodic words, on the on hand, and hiatuses within prosodic words, on \n the other hand. In the former case, glottal elements and transitory glides can appear in the same \n environments and the choice between the two is governed by speech rate. In the latter case, glottal \n elements and transitory glides are in complementary distribution, both at slow and fast speech rates. \n Working within the theoretical framework of the Bidirectional Model of Phonology and \n Phonetics (Boersma 2007ab), this thesis presents an Optimality-Theoretic analysis of hiatus \n resolution in Dutch. It is argued that glottal elements and transitory glides do not have a segmental \n representation in phonology, and that they only appear in the Phonetic Form as the result of \n articulatory and cue constraints.","bbox":{"left":0.115725,"top":0.087692,"width":0.7687520000000001,"height":0.307689}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}