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We will discuss three types of rhythmic variability in Dutch. The first we will call “stress shifts to the right”; the second “stress shifts to the left” and the third “beat reduction”. In the first type as exemplified in stúdietòelage (s w s w w) ‘study grant’, we assume that this compound can be realized as stúdietoelàge (s w w s w) in allegro speech. Perfèctioníst (w s w s) is an example of “stress shift to the left” and we expect a realization pèrfectioníst (s w w s) in allegro speech. The last type does not concern a stress shift, but a stress reduction. In zùidàfrikáans (s s w s) ‘South African’ compounding of zuid and afrikaans results in a stress clash. In fast speech this clash is avoided by means of reducing the second beat: zùidafrikáans (s w w s). Table 1 shows a selection of our data.
Table 1. Data

Type 1: stress shift to the right (andante: s w s w w; allegro: s w w s w)

stu die toe la ge ‘study grant’

weg werp aan ste ker ‘disposable lighter’

ka mer voor zit ter ‘chairman of the House of Parliament’

Type 2: stress shift to the left (andante: w s w s; allegro: s w w s)

per fec tio nist ‘perfectionist’

a me ri kaan ‘American’

vi ri li teit ‘virility’

Type 3: beat reduction (andante: s s w s; allegro: s w w s)

zuid a fri kaans ‘South African’

schier mon nik oog ‘name of an island’

gre go ri aans ‘Gregorian’
The different rhythmic patterns are accounted for phonologically within the framework of OT.