{"id":1923,"date":"2012-01-05T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2012-01-03T10:03:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T08:03:40","slug":"fontica-do-portugus-europeu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=1923","title":{"rendered":"Fonética do português europeu"},"content":{"rendered":"
Fon\u00e9tica do portugu\u00eas europeu: <\/strong>Descri\u00e7\u00e3o e transcri\u00e7\u00e3o. By Ant<\/strong>\u00f3<\/strong>nio Emiliano<\/strong>. Lisbon: Guimar\u00e3es Editores, 2009. Pp. xviii, 388. ISBN 9789726656142<\/a>. $53.<\/div>\n

Reviewed by\u00a0Jason Doroga<\/a><\/strong>, <\/strong>University of Wisconsin-Madison<\/em><\/p>\n

The author, Ant\u00f3nio Emiliano, motivated by a lack of consistency and clarity of terms in the bibliography on the description of the sound system of Standard European Portuguese (SEP), states that the main objectives of his book are to provide clear definitions of the main concepts of articulatory phonetics and to provide a standard transcription of the sounds of European Portuguese using the normalized guidelines of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).<\/p>\n

Ch. 1 (3\u201384) presents an overview of critical terms relevant to the analysis and transcription of the sounds of SEP. E demonstrates the need to use a standardized formula to describe SEP consonants and vowels and provides a complete articulatory description for each phoneme. He discusses the IPA system of transcription and the various problems with previous attempts to codify SEP pronunciation using an international system. Specifically, E focuses on the inconsistency of previous attempts to transcribe SEP atonic vowel reduction, metaphony, and diphthongs, concluding with a chapter discussing the relationship between orthography and speech in which he demonstrates that the pronunciation of SEP presents peculiarities that cannot be codified in the orthography.
\nThe bulk of the lengthy Ch. 2 (85\u2013246) comprises an encyclopedic inventory of the sounds of SEP, accompanied by a list of lexical items with a phonetic transcription for each word. The lists also present the various possible orthographic representations for each phone. It is not explicitly stated who the intended audience is for such a comprehensive listing of transcriptions; however, for the non-native SEP speaker, access to an audio recording of the words would enhance the utility of these transcriptions.<\/p>\n

The most interesting section of the book is found in Ch. 3 (248\u201390). Though not a main focus, E discusses the major phonetic differences between SEP and other varieties of Ibero-Romance, including Galician and Castilian. Also included is a cursory glance at the differences between Brazilian Portuguese and SEP. Additionally, E occasionally explains the historical development of the sound system. For example, he understands the vowel reduction in modern SEP to be a continuation of the reduction of atonic vocalic distinctions made in Vulgar Latin.<\/p>\n

A comprehensive topographical index of geographical names (with accompanying phonetic transcriptions) comprises the last chapter (291\u2013365). There is no introductory text or commentary for this chapter to justify its inclusion in the book, although the reader may assume that the author uses it to attempt to clarify lingering doubt on the standard pronunciation of the toponyms.<\/p>\n

E acknowledges that his transcriptions represent the pronunciation of an educated speaker of the prestigious variety of Lisbon and, for the most part, the book overlooks the issue of allophonic variation socially or geographically. Additionally, the book does not include a subject index or a glossary of the many phonetic terms discussed in the main body of the text. Since this is not a phonetic manual of SEP, a discussion of important topics such as accentuation and syllabic divisions is not included; however, E\u2019s contribution specifically addresses the need for monographs that provide consistent phonetic transcriptions for the sounds of SEP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fon\u00e9tica do portugu\u00eas europeu: Descri\u00e7\u00e3o e transcri\u00e7\u00e3o. By Ant\u00f3nio Emiliano. Lisbon: Guimar\u00e3es Editores, 2009. Pp. xviii, 388. ISBN 9789726656142. $53. Reviewed by\u00a0Jason Doroga, University of Wisconsin-Madison The author, Ant\u00f3nio Emiliano, motivated by a lack of consistency and clarity of terms in the bibliography on the description of the sound system of Standard European Portuguese (SEP), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}