1st Edition

Trends in the Acquisition of Portuguese Phonology

210 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Trends in the Acquisition of Portuguese Phonology offers a comprehensive analysis of Portuguese phonological development in children and L2 learners. Drawing from decades of research, the collection highlights the application of generative theoretical models in understanding the intricacies of language acquisition in both Brazilian and European Portuguese contexts. Readers will gain an... Read more

Introduction
Carmen Matzenauer, Cristiane Lazzarotto-Volcão and Maria João Freitas

1. Theoretical models for phonological development
Carmen Matzenauer, Maria João Freitas, and Chao Zhou

2. Production in typical phonological development: Segmental aspects
Clara Amorim, Cristiane Lazzarotto-Volcão, and Rita Santos

3. Production in typical phonological development: Suprasegmental aspects
Maria João Freitas, Letícia Pacheco Ribas and Raquel Santana Santos

4. Production in atypical phonological development
Marisa Lousada, Cristiane Lazzarotto-Volcão, and Ana Margarida Ramalho

5. Perception acquisition in Portuguese: Identification of phonological contrasts
Larissa C. Berti and Catarina Oliveira

6. Phonology and early writing: Developmental paths in Brazilian and Portuguese children
Ana Ruth Moresco Miranda, Lourenço Chacon, Teresa Costa, and Celeste Rodrigues

7. Portuguese phonology in bilingual children
Letícia Almeida

8. Portuguese L2 phonology
Ubiratã Kickhöfel Alves, Adelina Castelo, Anabela Rato, and Chao Zhou

Biography

Carmen Matzenauer is Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil, and a 1A researcher for the Brazilian National Research and Development Council (CNPq). She has a PhD in Linguistics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Her teaching activities include phonology and language acquisition subjects, as well as supervising master's, doctoral and post-doctoral students. She carries out research in the field of linguistics, with an emphasis on phonology and phonetics.

Cristiane Lazzarotto-Volcão is Full Professor in the Department of Vernacular Language and Literature and a professor and researcher in the Graduate Program in Linguistics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil. Additionally, she holds a research fellowship at the Linguistics Center of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. As a member of the Speech Department of the Brazilian Society of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, she has contributed significantly to her field.

Maria João Freitas is Full Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, Portugal, a researcher at Centro de Linguística (CLUL), and Director of the Doctoral Program in Linguistics at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. She participated in national projects headed by the Ministério da Educação and in national and international projects supported by public institutions. Teaching activity includes curricular units on phonology and on language acquisition. Her research interests are in the fields of phonological acquisition, clinical linguistics and educational linguistics. Her research is currently supported by FCT UID/214/2025.