The Routledge Handbook of Portuguese Phonology provides an up-to-date description of the Portuguese phonological system, including a thorough account of the fundamental concepts, data, previous explanations, as well as the status quaestionis and directions for future research and further reading.

IntroductionPART I. Portuguese Segmental Phonology1 The phonemes of Portuguese2 The phonology of Portuguese oral vowels3 The phonology of Portuguese nasal vowels4 The phonology of Portuguese onset consonants5 The phonology of Portuguese coda consonantsPART II. Portuguese Suprasegmental Phonology6 Current issues in Portuguese syllable structure7 Current issues in Portuguese main and secondary stress 8 Current issues in Brazilian Portuguese intonation9 Current issues in European Portuguese intonationPART III. Portuguese Sound Variation and Change10 Sound variation in Brazilian Portuguese11 Sound variation in European Portuguese12 Sound variation in Portuguese-speaking Africa13 Sound variation in Portuguese-speaking Asia: East Timor and Japan14 Sound change in the history of Portuguese15 On the historical source of mid root vowel alternations in the present indicative of Portuguese and Galician second- and third-conjugation verbsPART IV. Portuguese Phonological Acquisition and Teaching 16 Phonological acquisition of Portuguese as a first language17 Phonological acquisition of Portuguese as a second and a third language18 Phonological acquisition of Portuguese as a heritage language19 Teaching speech prosody to non-native learners of PortuguesePART V. Portuguese Phonology and Related Areas20 Current issues in Portuguese laboratory phonology21 Current issues in the Portuguese phonology-morphology interface22 Current issues in the Portuguese phonology-syntax interface23 Current issues in Portuguese phonology and orthography