Den banbrytande fonetikern Armando de Lacerda med sin uppfinning polykromografen.

Abstract (eng):

In this talk, Quintino Lopes, Institute of Contemporary History (IHC), Lisbon, will present the work of the phonetician Armando de Lacerda (1902–1984). Lacerda was a pioneer in the field of twentieth-century speech sciences. In 1932, he invented the polychromograph, a type of inkjet oscillograph which overcame many of the limitations of kymography, the antiquated method which remained in use at experimental phonetics laboratories up until the mid-20th century. 

In 1933, in collaboration with the German phonetician Paul Menzerath, Armando de Lacerda developed the concept of coarticulation, which has played a major role in phonetic theory ever since. He went on to establish Portugal’s first phonetics laboratory, the Coimbra Experimental Phonetics Laboratory (1936–1979), which was regarded in the mid-twentieth century as the most advanced laboratory of its kind in Europe. Scientists from all over the world (e.g. Harvard, Cambridge, Uppsala, the Sorbonne) worked at the laboratory carrying out research and receiving training in the use of the instruments and research methods developed by its head: Armando de Lacerda. 

PHONLAB is a research & development (R&D) project on the history of experimental phonetics, funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia – Foundation for Science and Technology. It brings together researchers from the Universities of Évora (Portugal), Coimbra (Portugal), Stockholm (Sweden), and Macau (China), and aims to recover for
historiography and the collective memory the importance of the Experimental Phonetics
Laboratory of the University of Coimbra and its founder and director. 

Om Quintino Lopes