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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Aaarrrrr – part 2
Derhotacized-r: what is it? I have several times come across the term ‘derhotacized /r/’ in the American speech pathology literature (e.g. Shriberg & Kent, 2003: 118). As a description of the fact a client cannot produce an /r/, it does … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical Phonetics
History of Clinical Linguistics
At ICPLA in Oslo this year, Mick Perkins had a most interesting (and popular) poster on the history of Clinical Linguistics. Both Mick and Sara Howard (seen here at the convention hotel outside Oslo) have an interest in this topic. … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical Linguistics
Strange sounds from the clinic – 1
This is the first in an occasional series describing unusual articulations encountered over the years. In Ball, Manuel and Müller (2004) we described a child who used as his predominant articulation a velodorsal stop, whereby the velum moved up and … Continue reading
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Pr Pron (LARSP revisited)
In the days when my students at Cardiff regularly undertook LARSP analyses as part of their class work, many of them would ask what to do with utterances such as “on it”, “under him”, “behind me”. There were often quite … Continue reading
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Velar laterals in disordered speech?
In our paper Ball et al (2009: 137) we wrote, “The velar lateral has been noted as occurring in some English dialects as a realization of the dark-l allophone so, for example, Texas English [skuʟ] for school. It has not been recorded as far … Continue reading
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International Child Phonology Conference 2011, York
The deadline for submitting abstracts to the International Child Phonology Conference, June 2011, to be held in York has been extended to January 15, 2011. See: http://yorkconferences.com/Delegate_Information/International_Child_Phonology_Conference.aspx
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ICPLA 2012 First Announcement
Due to the Earthquakes, ICPLA 2012 will now NOT be held in New Zealand, but in Ireland (Cork). Please see more recent posts for details.
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Paperback version of Clinical Linguistics Handbook
The paperback version of The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics edited by M. Ball, M. Perkins, N. Müller and S. Howard, and published by Wiley-Blackwell, is due out in January 2011. See http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1444338773.html
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New book in Language & Speech Disorders series
Peter Howell’s new book Recovery from Stuttering has just been published by Psychology Press, in their ‘Language and Speech Disorders’ series. See book announcement at http://www.languagedisordersarena.com/recovery-from-stuttering-9781848729162 The series welcomes book proposals in any area of disordered language and speech, including clinical … Continue reading
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The Languages of LARSP
The Language Assessment Remediation and Screening Procedure (LARSP) developed by David Crystal, Paul Fletcher and Michael Garman in 1976, with a revised edition in 1989 is still, in my opinion, one of the best assessment tools for grammar that we … Continue reading
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