Widely spoken languages are critical to the understanding of speech and language, due to their spatial and demographic variability. As the third European language in number of speakers, Portuguese has challenged phoneticians and phonologists with its wealth of varieties even before the advent of XXth century linguistics. In the past, topics such as nasalization, vowel reduction, stress, tone, rhythm, and vowel harmony were investigated in light of comparative grammar, neogrammarian theory, European and American structuralism, generative phonology and optimality theory – just to name a few. Yet, until recently, the questions of phonetic grounding raised by this literature lacked a firm basis for empirical treatment.
Laboratory phonology has recently changed this picture, providing new tools for the treatment of classical questions and leading to the discovery of new challenging phenomena made visible by instrumental methodology. Issues amenable to the new approach span phonological subsystems, variability, change, contact, L1 and L2 acquisition, etc.
Thus, given the growing visibility of Portuguese in meetings such as ICPhS, PAPE, and, more recently, LabPhon, this Special Collection was designed to provide a new forum for the small yet very active community of laboratory phonologists striving to understand the sound pattern of the language.
Guest editors:
Eleonora Albano, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, albano@unicamp.br
Didier Demolin, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France, didier.demolin@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr
Editorial
Some long-standing issues in Portuguese phonology revisited in the laboratory
Eleonora Albano and Didier Demolin
2021-05-28 Volume 20 • Issue 1 • 2021 • 6
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Research Paper
Dialectal Variation in European Portuguese Central Vowel Perception
Valerie Horn, Esther Rinke and Cristina Flores
2020-02-25 Volume 19 • Issue 1 • 2020 • 1
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Perceptual Compensation of Vowel Nasality in Brazilian Portuguese
Luciana Marques and Rebecca Scarborough
2020-04-27 Volume 19 • Issue 1 • 2020 • 3
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Eyes or mouth? Exploring eye gaze patterns and their relation with early stress perception in European Portuguese
Marisa Cruz, Joseph Butler, Cátia Severino, Marisa Filipe and Sónia Frota
2020-04-30 Volume 19 • Issue 1 • 2020 • 4
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Listening to accented speech in Brazilian Portuguese: On the role of fricative voicing and vowel duration in the identification of /s/ – /z/ minimal pairs produced by speakers of L1 Spanish
Ubiratã Kickhöfel Alves and Luciene Bassols Brisolara
2020-05-13 Volume 19 • Issue 1 • 2020 • 6
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Cognitive biases on the social perception of the allophonic variation of coda /S/ in Brazilian Portuguese
Ana Paula Correa da Silva Biasibetti
2020-10-01 Volume 19 • Issue 1 • 2020 • 9
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Gradient and categorical assimilation of pretonic vowels in Brazilian Portuguese
Magnun Rochel Madruga, Silke Hamann and Maria Bernadete Marques Abaurre
2020-11-11 Volume 19 • Issue 1 • 2020 • 12
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Relationship between speech production and perception in children with Speech Sound Disorders
Larissa Cristina Berti, Jhulya Guilherme, Cássio Esperandino and Aline Mara de Oliveira
2020-11-12 Volume 19 • Issue 1 • 2020 • 13
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sC-clusters in Brazilian Portuguese
Thaïs Cristófaro Silva and Matheus Freitas
2020-12-30 Volume 19 • Issue 1 • 2020 • 14
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Detecting word-level stress in continuous speech: A case study of Brazilian Portuguese
Simone Harmath-de Lemos
2021-04-19 Volume 20 • Issue 1 • 2021 • 3
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Prosodization of prepositional clitics and prosodic words in Brazilian Portuguese: Investigation of phonetic cues
Lilian Maria da Silva and Luciani Ester Tenani
2021-06-10 Volume 20 • Issue 1 • 2021 • 7
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Collections
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Emergent and future change in Contemporary Portuguese grammar
Empirical Approaches to Portuguese Linguistics - New insights from studies in various areas of grammar
Possession and location in African varieties of Portuguese
Laboratory Approaches to Portuguese Phonology
Early Western and Portuguese descriptors of the Indian languages from the 16th century onwards