Abstract
This editorial to the Special Collection Laboratory Approaches to Portuguese Phonology aims at contextualizing the articles against the background of a two-century old scholarly tradition in the study of the Portuguese sound pattern. As foreseen in the Call for Papers, all the submissions received used laboratory methods to address long-standing issues raised by this tradition. Regardless of their publication order, the articles can be grouped into four topics: vowel variability, stress/stress-grouping, nasality, and fricative variability. Brief highlights on the works that paved the way for the state-of-the art in such topics are followed by comments on the gains introduced by the laboratory approach. Hopefully, this overview will help authors and readers evaluate the opportunities for further research along the lines indicated by the current results.
Highlights
This editorial to the Special Collection Laboratory Approaches to Portuguese Phonology aims at contextualizing the articles against the background of a two-century old scholarly tradition in the study of the Portuguese sound pattern
Regardless of their publication order, the articles can be grouped into four topics: vowel variability, stress/stress-grouping, nasality, and fricative variability
In 2018, soon after the 16th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, held in Lisbon in June 19–22, head organizer Sonia Frota, who is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, invited us to assemble a related Special Collection, initially conceived as a possible outlet for the papers on Portuguese presented in the conference
Summary
Albano and Demolin: Some long-standing issues in Portuguese phonology revisited in the laboratory a way of disclosing their company to one another in this endeavor, which may eventually facilitate communication about shared interests. Another indispensable acknowledgement goes to Marisa Cruz, the Assistant Editor of JPL. The call predicted that long standing issues such as vowel variability, nasality, stress/stress grouping, and fricative variability might return under new guises, reshaped by the laboratory They did – making it timely for us to pay respect to the acute intuitions of the pioneering men and women – grammarians, philologists, linguists, and phoneticians – who cleared the ground for contemporary work on Portuguese phonology. Rather than a detailed review of the historical literature, we will offer a brief selection of notable works addressing problems similar to those treated by our contributors
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