Sandhi on the boundary between two words. A survey in the Czech corpus of spoken language – Ortofon

Abstract

The object of the investigation is sandhi in the modern Czech language based on phonetic research of Czech corpus of spoken language – ORTOFON. In the Czech Standard norm word-final obstruents undergo devoicing before initial sonant of the following word. The research showed that the standard norm does not reflect fully the modern language situation. In the modern Czech language the word-final obstruents may undergo voicing before initial sonant. The frequency of voiced word-final obstruents before initial sonant in analyzed material was very high.