Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations and symbols -- Chapter 1: Theoretical background -- Chapter 2: Previous studies on European Portuguese word phonology -- Chapter 3: Phonological phenomena: Description and typology -- Chapter 4: On the affix/clitic status of stressless pronouns -- Chapter 5: The prosodic word -- Chapter 6: Compound Prosodic Words -- Chapter 7: On the reduction of clitics -- Chapter 8: Conclusion and directions of future research -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Notes -- References -- Index