Essex Research Reports in Linguistics Volume 57 Number 3 9 June, 2008 David Britain University of Essex dbritain@essex.ac.uk Sue Fox Queen Mary University of London s.p.fox@qmul.ac.uk Vernacular universals and the regularisation of hiatus resolution Dept. of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, UK, CO4 3SQ http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/errl/