Abstract
The fact that accent in Germanic words was fixed on the stem syllable had far-reaching consequences for the non-accented syllables in Germanic languages. The dynamic emphasis by means of main stress led to a gradual reduction of the syllables without main stress.1 This reduction process, which has remained active to this day, shows different stages of development in the various Germanic languages. In this respect, Dutch has a position approximately in between English and German. In English the nonaccented syllables have by and large disappeared, e.g. to make, street, etc., while they are often still present in German, and are pronounced like a short [ə], e.g. machen, Strafie, etc. Dutch, on the other hand, has besides words where syllables without main stress have been eliminated, e.g. straat, words with unstressed short [ə], e.g. maken.
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Prȩdota, S. (1980). On Vowel Reduction in Dutch. In: Geerts, G., et al. Dutch Studies. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8855-2_7
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