Going beyond the phonological: a bold, political and hopeful live

Abstract

This is a review of the conference Fonologia: conquistas e desafios, aired live at Abralin (Brazilian Linguistic Association) and delivered by Thais Cristófaro Silva, whose discourse has been highlighted by a critical placement regarding the current political situation in Brazil and by the scientific community role on the development of mechanisms aimed at combating social inequality. She emphasized the interaction between Phonetics and Phonology by bringing out three main advances on Phonetics: the IPA, the empirical advances on different technologies and the cognitive motricity hypothesis. Concerning Phonology, Cristófaro Silva (2020) pointed out the Brazilian Portuguese phonological phenomena, as follows: vowel nasalization, palatalization of alveolar stops and erasure of the unstressed [i]. Lastly, she recognized the challenges to be faced by areas in question, such as the integralization of several cognitive sciences, the elaboration of new terminologies, the valorization of plurilingualism and the socialization of knowledge.