Portuguese Phonetics and Phonologie: a Teching Laboratorial Model

Abstract

Natural languages are oral communication vehicles that eventually are written. It is very important to reflect on the sounds of the Portuguese language, using all the available resources that technology offer to us, especially the phonetic laboratories that allow us to record messages, analyze, diagnose and transmit them. We propose a model in two stages: the first, simpler, and the second more elaborated, which could be used as a support for teaching Portuguese language to native speakers; and the foreign, especially, as a research tool capable of representing the recording of sounds, its segmental and prosodic features. From the sound research we have suggested, it’s possible to establish contrasts, identify convergences, divergences, clarify ambiguities and misunderstandings, useful procedures for elementary school teachers, which lack the tools to link the speaking and writing, that reflects poor results in literacy of Brazilians’children, youth and adults.The research of sound, was an complex and expensive activity some years ago, however it has gradually become simplified and cheaper until it turns an available tool to everyone.