Oostendorp first provides evidence for the constraint CONNECT (N, lax) and discusses the
interaction of this constraint with phenomena of vowel length. He then discusses schwa (the
empty vowel) in Dutch, French, and Norwegian, showing that this vowel shows a defective
behavior at almost all projection levels. He reviews all the projection constraints that are
introduced in the volume and shows that the constraint set is not an arbitrary, unprincipled
set of unrelated constraints but can be subdivided into a small number of classes of tightly …

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