Abstract: This chapter presents a critical overview of the literature on Portuguese phonology that explores the laboratory approach, which emerged in the mid-1990s. As the pioneers of Portuguese phonet- ics and phonology were especially keen on gradience, most of such contemporary works revisit classical issues. Three such issues stand out for having resorted promptly to digital research tools, namely, nasalization, vowel variability, and sonorant lenition. As a result, there is now converging evidence that the oropharynx cooperates with the nasopharynx to produce the subtle distinctions in the Portuguese nasal vowel and diphthong repertoire. This will, in turn, likely lead to the study of the perceptibility of the dynamical aspects of such distinctions. There are also intriguing ques- tions on the recurrent front-back bias in the lenition of rhotics that call for further inquiry. More recently, the laboratory has also opened new interdisciplinary horizons for the investigation of the Portuguese sound pattern. The most important seem to be the study of phonological acquisition of Portuguese as a first (L1) and second (L2) language. Recent findings have already inspired new procedures for language teaching, as well as new rehabilitation techniques for children with phonological disorders. In addition, there is a promising recent trend emerging from new articu- latory assessment tools such as MRI and ultrasound, namely, the study of configurational vocal tract biases, which may help understand a long-standing phonological drift of Portuguese that still defies explanation, namely, palatalization. Such tools also promise to shed light on the relatively unexplored field of vocal stylistics Ver menos