In this paper I reconstruct the rupture role carried out by Para o Estudo da Fonêmica Portuguesa (1953) in the Brazilian academic context of the 1950s in contrast with the "Normas para a boa pronúncia da língua nacional no canto erudito" established in 1937 by the Congresso da Língua Nacional Cantada. I claim that there is continuity between the phonetic point of view of the "Normas" and the phonemic point of view of the "Fonêmica" in what concerns the selection of the empirical problems to be analysed; but I also claim that there is discontinuity between the two lines of research when it comes to treating linguistics data.
Mattoso Câmara; Phonemic; Phonetics; Congresso da Língua Nacional Cantada
