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.

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实验室重新审视葡萄牙音韵学中的一些长期问题

这篇关于葡萄牙语音韵学特别收藏实验室方法的社论旨在将这些文章置于葡萄牙语音型研究中具有两个世纪历史的学术传统的背景下。正如论文征集所预见的那样，所有收到的投稿都使用实验室方法来解决这一传统提出的长期存在的问题。无论发表顺序如何，这些文章都可以分为四个主题：元音变异、重音/重音分组、鼻音和摩擦音变异。简要重点介绍了为此类主题的最新技术铺平道路的作品，然后是对实验室方法所带来的收益的评论。希望，