Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2 DIMINUTIVES IN DUTCH -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Early generative work -- 2.3. The non-role of morphology, stress, vowel length, and sonorance -- 2.4. Dutch schwa -- 2.5. On -ing, -ling, stress, and morphological structure -- 2.6. Further data -- 2.7. Summary -- CHAPTER 3 THE WORD-FINAL RIME IN DUTCH -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. An inventory -- 3.3. The framework -- 3.4. The hierarchical structure of the Dutch rime -- 3.5. The formal structure of the Dutch rime -- 3.6. The final rime and diminutive formation -- CHAPTER 4 THE SYLLABLE IN DUTCH -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. The onset -- 4.3. The word-internal rime in Dutch -- 4.4. The word-final rime in Dutch revisited -- 4.5. Diminutive formation revisited -- 4.6. Conclusions -- CHAPTER 5 THE VELAR NASAL IN DUTCH -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. One or two segments for -- 5.3. Earlier literature -- 5.4. A fresh look at the relevant data -- 5.5. Search for a cluster underlying the velar nasal -- 5.6. Further difficulties for the cluster-analysis -- 5.7. Conclusions -- List of phonetic symbols -- References -- Index.