ABSTRACT
To investigate whether prosodic structure controls the occurrence of sandhi phenomena in EP, an experimental setting was designed so that the relevant observations could be made. The phenomena considered in this work are Fricative Voicing (FV), Syllable Degemination (SD), and the vowel adjacency resolution processes of Vowel Merger (VM), Back Vowel Deletion (BVD) and Semivocalization (SV). These phenomena have long been known to apply across words, although the discussion of the conditions under which these sandhi processes are operative is very recent in the literature on European Portuguese (see chapter 1, section 1.6).
